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ruminator en · NOUN

Etymology

Etymology tree English ruminate Proto-Indo-European *-tōr Proto-Italic *-tōr Latin -tor Latin -ātor Old French -eorbor. Middle English -our ▲ Latin -torlbor. English -or English ruminator From ruminate + -or.

Meanings

1. One who ruminates; one who meditates or reflects.
   • They’re also more likely to become unnerved by stressful events: for instance, Nolen-Hoeksema found that residents of San Francisco who self-identified as ruminators showed significantly more depressive symptoms after the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake. 2010 February 25, Jonah Lehrer, “Depression’s Upside”, in The New York Times Magazine:
   • An all-round terrific lady: sweet, compassionate, busty, pert-nosed, prone to floods of sudden tears, a lover of mini-skirts and tall leather boots and snug sweaters, which you somehow wore with total innocence, a worrier, a sweet ruminator by windows. a girl possessed of incredibly long. elegant eyelashes. and of course more flawlessly managed hair than a salonful of average girls could ever grow. 2008, Christopher Goffard, Snitch Jacket, page 74:
   • The narrator is a reader and ruminator, a provocateur. 2009 January 25, Maria Russo, “Unhappy Together”, in The New York Times:

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