Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who shelters, protects, or harbors: as, a shelterer of thieves or of outcasts.
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- noun A person who
shelters - noun A person who provides shelter
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Examples
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The building would provide shelterer and resources for a long time.
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Santloe, formerly a Justice of Peace, but being turned out of commission, he came first a shelterer here, and afterwards a prisoner in the Fleet.
Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences Arthur L. Hayward
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And the mothering beech, with her soft incense, her heart filling the room with warmth and light, her will to warm the world; the mothering beech, a healer and a shelterer, a lover like that Magdalen whose sin was loving much.
Child and Country A Book of the Younger Generation Will Levington Comfort 1905
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He was also known by the name of Hler (the shelterer) among the Northern nations, and of Gymir (the concealer), because he was always ready to hide things in the depths of his realm, and could be depended upon not to reveal the secrets entrusted to his care.
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She had accepted him from the hand of God as the protector and shelterer of her life; and, morning and night, upon her knees she thanked the gracious Creator who had made this man for her helpmeet.
Aurora Floyd. A Novel Mary Elizabeth 1863
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In this attempt they were much furthered and directed by one Major Santloe, formerly a Justice of Peace, but being turned out of commission, he came first a shelterer here, and afterwards a prisoner in the Fleet.
Lives Of The Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed Hayward, A L 1735
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That she seventip toe her chrysming, that she spin blue to scarlad till her temple’s veil, that the Mount of Whoam it open it her to shelterer!
Finnegans Wake 2006
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