attender

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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Definition

From Middle English attender, attendere, equivalent to attend + -er.

He was very pious, a great attender of sermons of the best preachers, which he took down in his short-hand, and had with him many volumes of them. — Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Benjamin Franklin
At last the perplexed man resolved to make his wife do duty as attender to signals, and was fortunate in this arrangement at first, for Molly was quick of apprehension. — Under the Waves: Diving in Deep Waters, R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
I lying vpon my bed, an oportune and meet freend to a wearie body, no creature accompaning me in my chamber, besides the attender vppon my body, and vsuall night lights, who after that she had vsed diuers speeches, to the end shee might comfort me, hauing vnderstood before of me, the originall cause of my hollow and deepe sighes, she indeuored hir best to moderate, if at least she might, that, my perturbed and pittifull estate. — Hypnerotomachia: The Strife of Loue in a Dreame, Francesco Colonna

hearer, listener, auditor

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