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sympathizer

noun

Etymology

From sympathize + -er.

  1. borrowed from sympathiser
  2. formed as sympathizer — “sympathize + -er”

Definitions

  1. A person who sympathizes (with a political cause, a side in a conflict, etc.)

    A person who sympathizes (with a political cause, a side in a conflict, etc.); a supporter.

    • His reputation was ruined when it was revealed that he had been a Nazi sympathizer before the war.
    • […] she exposed herself to the fury of the sympathizers with slavery, without fear, and suffered their blows without flinching.
    • ‘[…] And I tell you that the slightest suspicion of my loyalty could be ruin for me, ruin! If it were ever breathed that I were even a sympathiser with this rebellion, there iss an end of me.’

  2. A person who has, shows or expresses sympathy (with another person or people)

    A person who has, shows or expresses sympathy (with another person or people); a person who enters into the feelings of another.

    • […] it is a sad case when the truly godly, who are cordial sympathizers, and earnest intercessours in the straits of a Nation, are stricken dumb in a day of calamity […]
    • […] I am a sympathizer in every part of thy distress, except (and yet it is cruel to say it) in That which arises from thy guilt.
    • Not a mood of his but what found a ready sympathiser in Margaret; not a wish of his that she did not strive to forecast, and to fulfil.

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Derived

comsymp, nonsympathizer

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA