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attender en · NOUN

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Etymology

From Middle English attender, attendere, equivalent to attend + -er.

Meanings

1. An attendee; one who attends a course, meeting, school, etc.
   • If there is no spiritual distinction between member and attender, the question is asked, Why have membership at all? 2000, Linda Woodhead, Paul Heelas, Religion in Modern Times: An Anthology, Blackwell Publishing, page 401:
   • The great distance that some youth travel...is bound to play its part in the case of the borderline student who becomes an infrequent attender and finally drops out of school. 1950, Harold Spears, The High School for Today, American Book Co., page 2:
   • 1900, James Wideman Lee, Naphtali Luccock, and James Main Dixon, The Illustrated History of Methodism, page 345, The Methodist Magazine Publishing Co. And she continued her infamous trade of procuress, while a zealous and regular attender of the Tabernacle at Tottenham-Court!
   • She was a very constant attender of First-day and week-day meetings, at the meeting places she belonged to 1850, William Ellis, Alice Ellis, James Backhouse, The Life and Correspondence of William and Alice Ellis, of Airton, H. Longstreth, page 305:
2. An attendant; one who attends to someone or something.
   • Sri C. Rajabather was appointed to assist in the office as typist attender from 7-4-41. 1969, University of Melbourne Library: Report, Melbourne: University Press, page 1:
3. (qualifier:metaphysics) The subject; one who experiences.
   • the whole process of ages’-long mentalization, of which our present ability of conceiving “Mind” forms only the culmination, and by no means the constant attender. 1873, Sara S. Hennell, Present Religion: As a Faith Owning Fellowship with Thought, Trübner and Co., page 159:
   • Activity of attention for the sake of knowledge changes only the mind of the attender and is resisted only by the habits, biases, laziness and the like 1954, Wilmon Henry Sheldon, God and Polarity: A Synthesis of Philosophies, Yale University Press, page 48:
   • The other aspect pertains to the subject’s own subjectivity, those qualities that constitute the subject as the experiencer or attender. 1996 July, Daniel A. Helminiak, The Human Core of Spirituality: Mind as Psyche and Spirit, State University of New York Press, page 53:

Forms

Deriveds

nonattender · attendress