Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who imposes or lays on; one who enjoins or exacts.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who imposes.
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- noun One who
imposes .
Etymologies
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Examples
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In that 1st century,to preach that the Son of God had come as a humble worker and had been crucified nude like an imposer sounded no serious for many.
Archive 2009-02-01 baikinange 2009
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Understanding this allows us to see through the triplistic appearance of a seemingly concrete self-sufficient "me," a seemingly concrete imposer "you," and a seemingly concrete act of expressing affection as a threatening demand.
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Asian liberation/liberal theologians recognize Vatican as an imposer of imperialistic Roman culture to Asian countries.
FABC to call for the use of Asian symbols, melodies and values at Mass 2009
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Le vent des hauts-plateaux souffle où il veut: qui peut lui imposer une direction?
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Ils ne voudraient pourtant pas recevoir d'adoucissement, car ils savent que la justice divine se doit de leur imposer les tourments les plus terribles.
Archive 2008-10-19 de Brantigny........................ 2008
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His Christ is an example, not an imposer of hard-and-fast (and perhaps narrow-minded) values.
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It is a patriotism of returning America to her rightful role as leader by example, and away from our failed experiment as an imposer of ideology.
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Le vent des hauts-plateaux souffle où il veut: qui peut lui imposer une direction?
French Word-A-Day: 2006
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I experience it as any other intrusion or imposer upon the equilibrium of the mind or body.
Dr. Leo Rangell: Music in the Head: Living at the Brain-Mind Border; Part 3 2008
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Ils ne voudraient pourtant pas recevoir d'adoucissement, car ils savent que la justice divine se doit de leur imposer les tourments les plus terribles.
Les Anges et les Âmes du Purgatoire de Brantigny........................ 2008
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