Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who remarks; one who makes remarks; a critic.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who remarks.

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  • noun One who remarks.

Etymologies

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remark +‎ -er

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Examples

  • Chorus that Andronic is a _joli_ fool, -- which choral remark I hear with pain, as reflecting upon unhesitating love, and especially as the remarker has been eminently touched at the abduction.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 34, August, 1860 Various

  • She is fearfully ancestral and an awful eater, and also a sour remarker, and I stay out of her way, but that night I couldn't help seeing the way she made food disappear.

    Kitty Canary Kate Langley Bosher 1898

  • Says one of this sex, of a powerful mind, and a sagacious remarker, "I have seldom met with a truly cheerful-minded, and contented woman."

    The Young Maiden 1847

  • The slightest compliment is interpreted as flattery, so that the remarker must do violence to his honest convictions, lest he offend an ever-suspicious, maidenly, pride.

    The Young Maiden 1847

  • I am the last to be a judge upon this subject, but as a remarker, he only appeared to me a man who knew so well he could manage the animal when he pleased, that he did not deem it worth his while to keep constantly in order what he knew, if urged or provoked, he could subdue in a moment.

    The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 3 Fanny Burney 1796

  • After reproving this remarker, by observing that no man was obliged to carry a concordance in his head, nor could it be expected he should render every text of scripture verbatim, I once more read the passage, when in a conceding tone of voice and gentle - manly manner, my discomforted opponent hesitatingly questioned,

    Letters, and sketches of sermons : in three volumes 1812

  • For their integrity and abhorrence of falfehood we have - heard them highly praifed by a £erfon lefs prejudiced than this remarker; we mean the late excellent Mr,

    The Monthly Review 1791

  • a 'recreant' -- just what needs the slight punishment of instant death to the remarker -- and ... where is the way?

    The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, Vol. 1 (of 2) 1845-1846 Robert Browning 1850

  • ■ rbkb the remarker himfelf feems to confider as merely ather confufed than enlightened by confuhing Anderfon.

    The Monthly Review 1796

  • As an inftariceof the mild and peaceable difpofitfon of the Turks, the remarker mentions the method, which the Jani - zaries ufe, to prevent the people from preffing on the Sultan, when he appears in public: inftead of threatening to break their heads with ftaves, or to crufh their toes with the butt ends of their firelocks, according to the cuftoms of the more polite nations of Europe, — - they gently flap the muflelman's turban with a piece of leather, fattened to the end of a wand.

    The Monthly Review 1791

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