chider

Just remind the chider that, while it might be a hobgoblin of sorts, quoting Emerson is the first sign of an intellectual con job.

"Congress can impose this disparate treatment forever because of the history in the South?" Ann Althouse 2009

Just remind the chider that, while it might be a hobgoblin of sorts, quoting Emerson is the first sign of an intellectual con job.

"Congress can impose this disparate treatment forever because of the history in the South?" Ann Althouse 2009

“Azúl” (Azzál, etc.) = a chider, blamer; elsewhere

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

But YE gaze, laugh, and greet the gruff chider, with mocks.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 54, No. 338, December 1843 Various

*** I have been directed to chide, and even repulse, when an offence was either taken or given, at the very time when the heart of the chider or repulser was open before me, overflowing with esteem and affection; and the fair repulser, dreading to be taken at her word, directed _this_ word, or _that_ expression, to be softened or changed.

A History of English Prose Fiction Bayard Tuckerman

By Allah, O my chider for my sister leave, ah! leave * My heart to moan its grief and feel the woes befitting me.

Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

The energy with which this reproof, though severe, was begun denoted what self-flattery might well have construed into affection; for it proved the interest the lovely chider took in the rectitude of my conduct.

The Adventures of Hugh Trevor Thomas Holcroft 1777

‘dwelster’ (Jer.xxi. 13); and ‘singer’ ‘singster’ (2 Kin.xix. 35); so too, ‘chider’ had ‘chidester’ (Chaucer), as well as ‘chideress’,

English Past and Present Richard Chenevix Trench 1846

Quoth to me my chider, Be wise and say * Soothe my heart and blame not, O friend I greet. "

Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

"I indeed will well for whom love I will: * Let chider chide and let blamer blame:

Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855