Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who deviates.
- noun An appliance for altering the course of a balloon by resistance against water. The appliance is suspended from the balloon by a cord and floats in the water. See the extract.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who, or that which, deviates.
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- noun That which
deviates , or causesdeviation
Etymologies
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Examples
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What you are hearing are the official spokesmen of Yasser Arafat in the West, but in the Palestinian areas that's seldom said, and if it's said at all it is said by someone who's -- someone, for example, like the newly appointed official in Jerusalem, who is -- I'll get his name in a minute -- who is widely known to be a dissenter and a deviator.
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He, together with Andrews and Roux, was said to be a chauvinist because he had no confidence in the African's capacity for struggle; a reformist, because he would limit the national movement to a struggle for equal rights; and a right deviator because he allowed 'the native bourgeoisie and the intellectuals' to take the lead.
Class & Colour in South Africa - Chapter 19 Ray Esther 1969
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There had been no deviation on the part of Lapierre, so the deviator must necessarily have been Savareen.
The Gerrard Street Mystery and Other Weird Tales John Charles Dent 1864
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Nor was it an immutable ideological constant that any deviation from it would consign the deviator to hellfire for eternity.
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Nor was it an immutable ideological constant that any deviation from it would consign the deviator to hellfire for eternity.
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But the true deviator is the gruesome and bleak vocals from Hans Moll, who can recite one moment and growl the next.
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Nor was it an immutable ideological constant that any deviation from it would consign the deviator to hellfire for eternity.
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Nor was it an immutable ideological constant that any deviation from it would consign the deviator to hellfire for eternity.
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Nor was it an immutable ideological constant that any deviation from it would consign the deviator to hellfire for eternity.
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Nor was it an immutable ideological constant that any deviation from it would consign the deviator to hellfire for eternity.
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