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suitor
[
soo
-ter
]
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suit·or
/
ˈsu
tər
/
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[
soo
-ter
]
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noun
1.
a man who courts or woos a woman.
2.
Law
.
a petitioner or plaintiff.
3.
a person who
sues
or petitions for anything.
4.
Informal
.
an individual who seeks to buy a business.
Origin:
1250–1300;
Middle English
s
(
e
)
utor, suitour
<
Anglo-French
<
Latin
secūtor,
equivalent to
secū-,
variant stem of
sequī
to follow +
-tor
-tor
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to put an end to or suppress a nuisance; to annul a writ
the institution and carrying on of legal proceedings against a person; the body of officials by whom such proceedings are instituted and carried on
deprived of certain rights as a citizen, as a consequence of conviction of certain offenses
an agreement enforceable by law, originally applied to promises under seal; a bond containing a penalty, with a condition annexed for payment of money
permitting no option, not to be disregarded or modified
a release from the penalty of an offense; a remission of penalty, as by a governor; the document by which such remission is declared
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suitor
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suitor
has elaborated on how it would improve matters.
Yet each book captures a truth that the foreign
suitor
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Some of the roll calls of our essayists remind one of the tale of a rejected and dejected
suitor
.
Neither
suitor
has elaborated on how it would improve matters.
Yet each book captures a truth that the foreign
suitor
might use to find some degree of peace:.
From a watchful father figure he becomes a smarmy
suitor
and eventually a wildly jealous and possessive warden.
The frustrated
suitor
quits the art world to become a world-famous concert singer.
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World English Dictionary
suitor
(ˈsuːtə, ˈsjuːt-)
—
n
1.
a man who courts a woman; wooer
2.
law
a person who brings a suit in a court of law; plaintiff
3.
rare
a person who makes a request or appeal for anything
[C13: from Anglo-Norman
suter,
from Latin
secūtor
follower, from
sequī
to follow]
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 10th Edition
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