Definitions
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- n. One who murmurs
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- n. One who murmurs.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who murmurs; one who complains sullenly; a grumbler.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- n. a person who speaks softly and indistinctly
Etymologies
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Examples
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We begin with Sleep personified as a "Low murmurer," the adjectival effect rounded off almost comically by the next line's last word in "pillows" (ll. 11-12).
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I tried to track down the cake by searching for King Macadamian and was taken to "murmurer de patissier" -- whatever that is.
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Since then, he hath become an active and earnest agitator, a murmurer, and a machinator, and a leader amongst those who impugn our authority; not considering that the rule is given to the Master even by the symbol of the staff and the rod — the staff to support the infirmities of the weak — the rod to correct the faults of delinquents. —
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John Downame cried, "is seated upon the ale-bench and has got himself between the cup and the wall he presently becomes a reprover of magistrates, a controller of the state, a murmurer and repiner against the best established government."
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The myriad sorceries of House Troqwai could hold the killer at bay for a time that seemed unimaginable to the harried children of DownTown, but still the murmurer gnawed and clawed and insinuated its dark tentacles through cracks in the walls.
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If the disciple obey unwillingly and murmur in word as well as in heart, it will not be accepted by God, Who considereth the heart of a murmurer, even if he do what was ordered.
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This murmuring was not, however, without its consolations to the murmurer, for as soon as the actual reading stopped he could take up a novel or magazine and, leaving his vocal organs to carry on the work, concentrate his mind upon the preparation of material against some future session.
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"Cela fut trouvé si nouveau et estrange entre les prélats, que soubdain ils commencèrent tous à murmurer et faire un grand bruict; lequel toutesfois estant aucunement appaisé," etc.
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Let the skies be ever so blue, the eyes of the murmurer can discover a rising cloud.
The Life of Duty, v. 2 A year's plain sermons on the Gospels or Epistles
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If real love was so much more vulgar than she had supposed, yet also it was so much more overwhelming that she was glad to be a flesh-and-blood lover, bruised and bewildered and estranged from herself, instead of a polite murmurer.
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