Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who consorts with another; a companion; an associate.

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Examples

  • The Manchurian-born Yoshiko Yamaguchi, now 88 years old, truly was the wartime poster girl of Japan's lust for China, a postwar screen icon (with an appearance -- as Shirley Yamaguchi -- on America's "Ed Sullivan Show"), sculptor Isamu Noguchi's obscure object of desire, a journalist, a politician and a consorter with Palestinian hostage takers.

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  • To be a galley-slave among the Spaniards, a galley - slave among the Moors, a consorter with Indians for two years, and again a prisoner with the Spaniards for as much more, was more than fell to the lot of any one man, and he, like the Spanish governor, believed that I was some rascal who had been marooned, only he thought that it was from an English ship.

    By England's Aid Or, the Freeing of the Netherlands, 1585-1604 1867

  • For I make no farther doubt thou art a consorter with malignants, harlots, and papists. '

    St. George and St. Michael George MacDonald 1864

  • For I make no farther doubt thou art a consorter with malignants, harlots, and papists. '

    St. George and St. Michael Volume III George MacDonald 1864

  • Presently she went forward and addressed the watch saying, "What is it ye want?" and Shamamah cried in reply, "O ill-omened old baggage, O rider of the jar, [FN#166] O consorter of thieves, we want the robber who is in thy house that we may take him and strike off his hand and his foot; and thou shalt see what we will do with thee after that."

    Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

  • Every man of them was an outlaw and, even if not yet an actual murderer at least a potential one, and a consorter with cruel, cowardly brutes in human shape who would destroy without mercy if they were not themselves destroyed -- who were, in fact, worse than wild beasts; for whereas the latter take life merely to satisfy the cravings of nature, the average pirate slew for the sheer love of slaying, and in order that he might gratify the unnatural lust that caused him to revel in the sight of human suffering.

    A Middy of the King A Romance of the Old British Navy Harry Collingwood 1886

  • "Also his son Anthony, a headstrong boy, I fear me, a consorter with vile characters.

    The Splendid Spur Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

  • "Sooner would I lay my only child out for burial in the grave than lead her to the house of a coloured man, a consorter with witch-doctors and black women and a would-be murderer.

    Swallow: a tale of the great trek Henry Rider Haggard 1890

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