preferrer
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "a preferrer of red wine"
- "1833, Ralph Waldo Emerson, journal entry dated 13 January, 1833, in Edward Waldo Emerson and Waldo Emerson Forbes (eds.), Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson, London: Constable, 1910, pp. 14-15, […] it takes a divine man to exhibit anything divine, Socrates, Alfred, Columbus, Wordsworth, or any other brave preferrer of the still voice within to the roar of the populace—a thing very easy to speak and very hard to do for twenty-four hours."
- "What is my attitude toward risk—am I a risk preferrer, risk neutral, or risk avoider?"
- "I […] am not a pacifist. Though a peacemonger, negotiator, preferrer of embargoes to missiles, I know there are times when the call of nation and nationality to use arms may have to be responded to."
- "I cannot nor ought nor, except I would bee noted not onely ingrate to your royall person beyng my patrone & preferrer, but also a neglecter of my dutye, a secrete mummer of suche thynges whiche touche both the inheritance of your croune & the honor of your realme ether holde my peace or kepe silence."
- "She [Anna Bollen] was a great Patronesse of the Protestants, Protectour of the persecuted, Preferrer of men of merit (among whom Hugh Latimer) a bountifull Reliever of the poor, and the happy Mother of Queen Elizabeth."
Etymology
From prefer + -er.