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December, although, as the reader is aware, he was not particularly bound to revere his uncle's memory.

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  1. noun One that reads.
  2. noun One who publicly recites literary works.
  3. noun A person employed by a publisher to read and evaluate manuscripts.

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  • This “one Mr. Williams,” as the reader will be aware, was Roger Williams, then on his way back to America; and “his book” was The Bloody Tenent . —  The Life of John Milton Vol. 3 1643-1649
  • What I find absorbing and rewarding as a reader is the perturbation of a status quo that a crisis, such as a crime, creates.
  • Indeed, at most times, the said youngster might have discharged a whole quiver of arrows into the Captain's eyes without his being aware of the attack; but, at the present time, the Captain, as the reader is aware, was up to the eyes in a plot in which Cupid's aid was necessary; he had, as it were, invoked the fat child's presence. —  Rivers of Ice
  • The result for the reader is a twofold interest, half in seeing what will be to most an unfamiliar place under expert guidance, half in the briskly moving intrigue supposed to be going on there. —  Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, 1920-09-29
  • Throughout his eventful life, as the reader has been able clearly to see, Kit Carson seldom spent his time in idle thinking. —  The Life and Adventures of Kit Carson, the Nestor of the Rocky Mountains, from Facts Narrated by Himself
 

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  1. from Middle English reder, redere, redare, redar, reader, counselor, adviser, from Anglo-Saxon rǣdere, rēdere, a reader, scholar, church reader (lector), reader of riddles, diviner (=D. rader, adviser, =Old High German rātari, rātiri, Middle High German rātære, counselor, adviser, guesser, diviner), from rǣdan, advise, read: see read.
 

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