angerer

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noun

One who makes someone angry.

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Meanings

angerer1

nounangerer (plural angerers)

plural angerers

  1. rareOne who makes someone angry.

    High thoughts have walked beside me in the world / That, when my passions woke, have from me torn / Harsh words that, on my angerers, I had hurled, / And taught me scorn of hate and hate of scorn.

    1845 January 12, [William Cox Bennett], “Dedication”, in Songs, Ballads, &c., Greenwich, Kent: […] Henry S. Richardson, […], →OCLC, page 8
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    Under these conditions, in which the instigator acts as model of the administration of shocks as well as an angerer, it is not particularly surprising that the subject chooses to respond in kind and to ignore the reward measure.

    1974, Susan Higley Russell, Insult, Aggressive Modeling, and Vicarious Reinforcement as Determinants of Adult Aggression, Stanford, Calif.: Department of Communication, Stanford University, →OCLC, page 87

    This technique of arguing, although basically dishonest, is astonishingly successful. The “angerer” finds out things that will especially annoy his opponent, begins to emphasize them, and as a result the opponent, emotionally upset, argues badly. The answer to this kind of illogical argumentative approach, is simply to realize that it is being used. The person who is being emotionally attacked will realize that the “angerer” himself must feel threatened or weak.

    1977, Tony Buzan, “Angering the Opponent”, in How to Make the Most of Your Mind, London: Colt Books, →ISBN, chapter 9 (Logic and Analysis), page 145

    If someone 'angers', 'offends', 'troubles', or 'frightens' someone else, the predication is often felt to concentrate on the behavior of the angerer (offender, troubler, frightener), rather than on the transitory feelings in the object.

    1979, Albert L. Lloyd, “Strong Processives”, in Anatomy of the Verb: The Gothic Verb as a Model for a Unified Theory of Aspect, Actional Types, and Verbal Velocity (Studies in Language Companion Series; 4), Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN, →ISSN, part II (Application: The Gothic Verb), chapter II (Aspect and Predicational Types in Gothic), page 186
  2. rareOne who holds anger.

    Limitless angerers⁹¹ are as good as dead⁹² / With no rage men are on par those in sainthood.

    2015, R. Venkatachalam, “Managing Anger (A justified cause not withstanding^([sic]) not getting anger)”, in Thirukkural - Translation - Explanation: A Life Skills Coaching Approach, Partridge India, →ISBN, paragraph 310 and notes 91 and 92
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    I did not shake as vigorously as you do when there is ill will Nadia, however I miracled the onlooker into a path of reflection, which was very dangerous, as you are noticing that reflection of self(s) before you brings to you love or anger. I was in the sameness. However, I would go to God and I would be shown the angerers and my role in their angers. […] Speak of love and you will find listeners. Speak of hope and you will find love. Speak of love and you will find angerers. Speak of love and some will say you are silly.

    2007, Nadia Khalil Bradley, Origins of Truth: Words That Will Awaken You to the Truth of Your Heart, Pasadena, Calif.: Three Corners Press, →ISBN, pages 377 (part 2 (The Book of Christ), chapter 15 (I Am Here)) and 594 (part 3 (The Book of Truth), chapter 5 (The Culminations), “Seekers” section)

    Now let’s see what Maimonides’ doctrine excludes from the imitation of God. While there are biblical passages in which God is presented as acting vengefully or angrily, these do not describe God as possessing the character trait of being an ‘avenger’ or as it were an ‘angerer’, a person of anger. Therefore for Maimonides these descriptions are not candidates for the doctrine of imitatio dei. We are not called on to imitate God’s ‘angry’ or ‘vengeful’ acts

    2017, Jerome Gellman, “Gender and Mystical Experience of God”, in Mystical Experience of God: A Philosophical Inquiry (Ashgate Philosophy of Religion Series), Aldershot, Hampshire; Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate Publishing, →ISBN, page 121

Angerer2

proper nounAngerer (plural Angerers)

plural Angerers

  1. A surname from German.

Origin

Angerer · proper noun

  1. GermanAngerer
  2. EnglishAngerer

Borrowed from German Angerer.

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Translations

Ukrainian агресор, стриманий
  • агресор (ahresor)one who makes someone angry
  • стриманий (strymanyj)one who holds anger
  • врівноважений (vrivnovaženyj)one who holds anger

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