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sufferer|ˈsʌfərə(r)|
Also 5–6 suffrer, 6 Sc. sufferar.
[f. suffer v. + -er1.]
1. One who suffers pain, tribulation, injury, wrong, loss, etc.; one who suffers from disease or ill health.
c1450tr. De Imitatione iii. li. 123, I knowe hov all þinge is doon, I knowe þe wronge doer & suffrer. 1579Rice Invect. agst. Vices D ij b, The sufferers of persecution for his names sake. 1671Milton Samson 1525 The sufferers then will scarce molest us here. 1684Wood Life (O.H.S.) III. 94 Basill Wood, sometimes a captaine in the king's army and a great sufferer for the king's cause. 1781Cowper Retirem. 343 Sad suff'rer under nameless ill. 1825Scott Betrothed iv, A severe discharge of missiles with the Welsh, by which both parties were considerable sufferers. 1888M. E. Braddon Fatal Three i. v, He had made up his mind that Dr. Hutchinson must come to see these humble sufferers, and to investigate the cause of evil.
b. One who suffers death; one who is killed (now only in reference to martyrdom).
1721Wodrow Hist. Suff. Ch. Scot. iii. iv. §5. II. 147, I know well, by subdolous Proposals, and captious Questions, great Endeavours were used to shake the Sufferers. 1815Scott Guy M. x, On one side of this patch of open ground, was found the sufferer's naked hanger. 1828― F.M. Perth xxiv, When thrown off from the ladder, the sufferer will find himself suspended, not by his neck,..but by the steel circle. 1836Gen. P. Thompson Exerc. (1842) IV. 103 The ‘poor sufferers’, as we say at York in assize time. 1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. vii. II. 176 A few years later a more illustrious sufferer, Lord Russell, had been accompanied by Burnet from the Tower to the scaffold in Lincoln's Inn Fields.
c. A patient. Now rare.
1809Med. Jrnl. XXI. 180 To such as have been in the habit of watching the various changes in this disease at the bedside of the unfortunate sufferer. 1848Thackeray Van. Fair xiv, A generous rivalry..as to which should be most attentive to the dear sufferer in the state bedroom.
†2. That which undergoes some operation; a passive thing. Obs. rare—1.
1587Golding De Mornay x. (1592) 146 Whereof then..so great ods betwixt them, sith we holde opinion that God is Good, and the verie worker or Doer, and contrariwise that Matter is Euill, and but onely a Sufferer?
†3. One who permits something to be done. Obs.
a1533Ld. Berners Gold Bk. M. Aurel. xi. (1537) 19 b, No bablers, but small spekers: no quarellers, but suffrers. 1560–1First Bk. Discipl. Ch. Scot. in Knox Wks. (1848) II. 188 Thair sall Goddis wraith reigne, not onlie upone the blind and obstinat idolater, but also upone the negligent sufferaris. 1627Sanderson Serm. (1674) I. 273 As for the very formality it self of the sin, God is (to make the most of it) but a sufferer. |
