infatuatorとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ɪnˈfætjuːeɪ̯tə/

名詞

infatuator (plural infatuators)

1. (rare) A person or thing that infatuates.
   • 1769, A Centinel, “To the Editor of the Political Register. An Instance of Ministerial Merit”, in Political Register and Impartial Review of New Books, volume 4, number 26, page 284:

     It is extremely obvious, what difficulties the infatuators are under, and how much they presume upon the blindness of the people when they report, that the Russian empress is to have her capital at Constantinople, which will employ the powers in the late quadruple alliance, and find them attention enough to defend their own dominions!

Further reading

• “infatuator, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, July 2023, only with an 1888 quote