Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who bolsters; a supporter.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A supporter.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who, or that which,
bolsters .
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Examples
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Barneveld, with his "nil scire tutissima fides," was denounced as a disguised Catholic or an infidel, and as for Paul Buys, he was a "bolsterer of Papists, an atheist, a devil," as it has long since been made manifest.
PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete John Lothrop Motley 1845
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Barneveld, with his "nil scire tutissima fides," was denounced as a disguised Catholic or an infidel, and as for Paul Buys, he was a "bolsterer of Papists, an atheist, a devil," as it has long since been made manifest.
History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce — Complete (1584-1609) John Lothrop Motley 1845
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Barneveld, with his "nil scire tutissima fides," was denounced as a disguised Catholic or an infidel, and as for Paul Buys, he was a "bolsterer of Papists, an atheist, a devil," as it has long since been made manifest.
History of the United Netherlands, 1586-89 — Complete John Lothrop Motley 1845
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"nil scire tutissima fides," was denounced as a disguised Catholic or an infidel, and as for Paul Buys, he was a "bolsterer of Papists, an atheist, a devil," as it has long since been made manifest.
History of the United Netherlands, 1586e John Lothrop Motley 1845
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"a bolsterer of all papists and ill men, a dissembler, a devil, an atheist," a "most naughty man, and a most notorious drunkard in the worst degree."
History of the United Netherlands, 1586d John Lothrop Motley 1845
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