Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who or that which wavers or fluctuates; especially, a person who vacillates or is undecided in mind.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who wavers; one who is unsettled in doctrine, faith, opinion, or the like.
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- noun A person who
wavers .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun one who hesitates (usually out of fear)
Etymologies
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Examples
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-- to be sure; most respectable man, capital fellow, the best parson in the county, -- no cant, but thoroughly orthodox; he certainly keeps in his brother, who, though a very active member, is what I call a waverer on certain questions.
Alice, or the Mysteries — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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But if one goes on developing, keeping pace with one's own age, renewing oneself with the perennially youthful impulses of contemporary thought, one's called a waverer and a renegade.
The Road to Damascus August Strindberg 1880
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The poet could not obtain his object if Agamemnon merely gave the summons to battle; and he thinks Agamemnon precisely the kind of waverer who will call, first the Privy Council of the Chiefs, and then an assembly.
Homer and His Age Andrew Lang 1878
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In 60 seconds or less, he went from waverer to WINO.
MN-03 2009
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In 60 seconds or less, he went from waverer to WINO.
WINO Republican Jim Ramstad: "I Agree With Harry Reid." But.... 2009
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To put the issue to rest, put the issue-waverer to pasture.
Blogtalk: The Wright-Obama Drama - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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And so did the Tory waverer I canvassed this morning .....
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Hackwork, not something that would compel the waverer to be interested in the character or to buy the next issue.
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Mr. Newman left the Church of England and with him carried many a waverer.
Barchester Towers 2004
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How many a waverer has halted on the brink, gone perhaps to some public meeting and watched self-conscious Socialists dutifully addressing one another as ‘Comrade’, and then slid away, disillusioned, into the nearest four-ale bar!
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