Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who proceeds or goes forward; one who makes a progress.
  • noun Specifically One who takes an academic degree.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who proceeds.

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  • noun One who proceeds.

Etymologies

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proceed +‎ -er

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Examples

  • He that seeketh victory over his nature, let him not set himself too great, nor too small tasks; for the first will make him dejected by often failings; and the second will make him a small proceeder, though by often prevailings.

    The Essays 2007

  • He that seeketh victory over his nature, let him not set himself too great nor too small tasks; for the first will make him dejected by often failings; and the second will make him a small proceeder, though by often prevailings.

    XXXVIII. Of Nature in Men 1909

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