英和和英

語源

prefer +‎ -er.

名詞

preferrer (複数形 preferrers)

1. A person who prefers (a stated person または thing).
   1. A person who likes one thing more than another; a person who favours something.

      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,^[1]

        […] 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.

      • 1984, William E. Nix and Susan W. Nix, The Dow Jones-Irwin Guide to Stock Index Futures and Options, Homewood, IL: Dow Jones-Irwin, Chapter 2, p. 15,^[2]

        What is my attitude toward risk—am I a risk preferrer, risk neutral, or risk avoider?

      • 1996, Martin E. Marty, “Religion and Nationality” in William Scott Green and Jacob Neusner (eds.), The Religion Factor, Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, p. 21,^[3]

        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.

   2. (obsolete) A person who advances or promotes someone or something.
      • 1548, Edward Hall, The vnion of the two noble and illustre famelies of Lancastre and Yorke, London, “The Victorious Actes of Kyng Henry the Fifth, The Seconde Yere,”^[4]

        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.

      • 1655, Thomas Fuller, “Section 3”, in James Nichols, editor, The Church History of Britain, […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), new edition, London: […] [James Nichols] for Thomas Tegg and Son, […], published 1837, OCLC 913056315, book, page 206:

        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.