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book-answerer en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (obsolete) A critic.
    • If he has much money, he may buy reputation from your book anſwerers, as well as a monument from the guardians of the temple. 1760, Oliver Goldsmith, “Letter XIII. From the same.”, in The Citizen of the World; or Letters from a Chinese Philosopher, […], volume I, London: […] [F]or the author; and sold by J. Newbery and W. Bristow, […]; J. Leake and W. Frederick, […]; B. Collins, […]; and A. M. Smart and Co. […], published 1762, →OCLC, page 45:

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