seeër

plural seeërs

1. rareRare spelling of seer.

   A person who flees is a fleer, and a person who sees is a seer (though to avoid confusion with seer meaning `foreteller', the forms see-er and seeër have been used).

   [2001, “Are there any English words containing the same letter three times in a row?”, in AskOxford, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, archived from the original on 21 Aug 2001, Frequently Asked Questions

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   Like Marco Polo, this truth-loving monk rarely, if ever, tells an incredible story without informing us that he gives it merely upon hearsay. He is himself no seeër of monsters, whether fiends, giants, or pigmies. He appears to have been deluded by a Chinese priest he met at the court of the Grand Khan.

   1846, Charles Mac Farlane, chapter VII, in The Romance of Travel. The East. […], volume I, London: Charles Knight & Co., […], →OCLC, page 174

   He [Walter Scott] was a great daydreamer, a seeër of fit and beautiful and humorous visions; but hardly a great artist; hardly, in the manful sense, an artist at all.

   1882 November, R[obert] L[ouis] Stevenson, “A Gossip on Romance”, in Longman’s Magazine, volume I, number I, London: Longmans, Green, & Co., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 79

   We have here two temperaments face to face; both untrained, unsophisticated, surprised (we may say) in the egg; both boldly charactered:—that of the artist, the lover and artificer of words; that of the maker, the seeër, the lover and forger of experience.

   1888 March, Robert Louis Stevenson, “Beggars”, in Scribner’s Magazine, volume III, number 3, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons; London: F[rederick] Warne & Co., →ISSN, →OCLC, section II, page 382, column 2

   The record of the third stage in Amos’ illumination is all too scanty. The seeër describes it so bluntly, so baldly, that one cannot help feeling disappointed. Evidently he felt that what he then saw was far beyond words; and so, with his wonted veracity, he made no attempt at description. He simply wrote, “I saw the Lord standing upon the altar and He said, ‘Smite the chapiters, that the thresholds may shake: and break them in pieces on the head of all of them, etc.” (ix. 1-10).

   1923, W[illiam] Winslow Hall, “Amos”, in Hebrew Illumination: A Study in Essential Religion, London: The C[harles] W[illiam] Daniel Co. […], →OCLC, page 90

   Light is important to us because we are "seeërs". Daydwellers. If we would have been blind as a bat ( :o) ), God would have started with, "Let there be sound". Who knows what we can`t see?

   2002 November 2, ankhor, “The DEVIL”, in alt.freemasonry (Usenet), archived from the original on 17 Jun 2025