Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who suffers; a person who endures or undergoes pain, either of body or of mind; one sustaining evil of any kind.
- n. One who permits or allows.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. One who suffers; one who endures or undergoes suffering; one who sustains inconvenience or loss
- n. One who permits or allows.
WordNet 3.0
- n. one who suffers for the sake of principle
- n. a person suffering from an illness
Etymologies
- to suffer + -er (Wiktionary)
Examples
“As a result, besides having to deal with the pain, the chronic pain sufferer also suffers from constantly being”
“One adult, an asthma sufferer, is causing some concern.”
“[1] Annotated in another hand: 'A sufferer from a destructive”
“Dick would be summoned to the lab: an elderly person had stopped breathing in his sleep, or a newborn had died, presumably from SIDS; a long-term sufferer of disease had finally succumbed to disease, or some genetic abnormality had stolen another life.”
“Just recently Sandra at Bookworld (otherwise a nice, thoughful litblog) opined that she had contracted "Bloom Syndrome," a "condition in which the sufferer is unable to read any work of literature unless it is deemed Significant by Harold Bloom and which often results in the reader losing the will to live/read, crushed under the weight of canonical imperatives.”
“Maybe trying to understand the sufferer is trying to understand Don.”
“Another sufferer is "desahuiciado with lamparones y empeines," severe skin afflictions, but he, too, is cured after the holy soil is rubbed on him, as is another man who is suffering from "one hundred and ten sores.”
Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico
“The experiences follow the same patterns: the sufferer is never quite normal, they can never exactly get it together.”
“The sufferer is compelled to order their world in this way, to "right" the anomalous odds (so to speak), to keep track of numbers, consciously or subconsciously.”
“The sufferer is Don Luis de Isetaniux, a resident of Mexico City in the year 1799.”
Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico
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