adorer
noun
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noun
Etymology: Etymology tree English adore Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzijos Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English adorer From adore + -er.
- Someone who adores.
“1582, Gregory Martin (translator), The New Testament of Jesus Christ, Translated Faithfully into English, Reims: John Fogny, John 4.23, p. 226, But the houre commeth, and now it is, when the true adorers shal adore the Father in spirit and veritie.”
“[…] I in one Night freed / From servitude inglorious welnigh half / Th’ Angelic Name, and thinner left the throng / Of his adorers […]”
- Someone who adores.
“[…] I profess myself her adorer, not her friend.”
“I vvho profeſs my ſelf an Admirer, an Adorer of Reaſon, am obliged to ovvn, that in ſome Caſes the Sharpneſs of Ridicule can do more than the Strength of Argument.”