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Definition of Murmurer
1. Noun. A person who speaks softly and indistinctly.
Generic synonyms: Speaker, Talker, Utterer, Verbaliser, Verbalizer
Derivative terms: Mumble, Murmur, Murmur, Murmur, Mutter, Mutter
Definition of Murmurer
1. n. One who murmurs.
Definition of Murmurer
1. Noun. One who murmurs ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Murmurer
1. one that murmurs [n -S] - See also: murmurs
Lexicographical Neighbors of Murmurer
Literary usage of Murmurer
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. My Sermon-Notes: A Selection from Outlines of Discourses Delivered at the by Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1884)
"The murmurer chargeth God with folly. This is the language, or rather blasphemy,
... The murmurer is a mutineer. The Israelites are called in the same text ..."
2. The royal phraseological English-French, French-English dictionary by John Charles Tarver (1853)
"Le vent murmure, the wind is murmuring. J'aime à entendre le ruisseau murmurer,
1 like to hear the gurgling — purling—of the stream. ..."
3. A Bibliographical and Critical Account of the Rarest Books in the English by John Payne Collier (1866)
"On the title-page is a woodcut of a murmurer, tallying with the following
description on sign. D 3: — " Wilt thou see a murmurer truely described, ..."
4. A New Dictionary, English and French, and French and English ...by Louis Chambaud, Jean-Thomas Hérissant Des Carrières by Louis Chambaud, Jean-Thomas Hérissant Des Carrières (1815)
"[one that tion de gronder, de murmurer, de se plaindre ; GRUMBLING ... [to murmur
like a hog] Grogner comme un cochon; fig. murmurer, se plaindre, gronder, ..."
5. Our Christian Classics: Readings from the Best Divines by James Hamilton (1857)
"Every murmurer is his own martyr. No man is so inwardly miserable as the murmurer;
no man hath such inward gripes and griefs as he, such inward bitterness ..."
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