attender

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Definition of attender

3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. An attendee; one who attends a course, meeting, school, etc.
    “She was a very constant attender of First-day and week-day meetings, at the meeting places she belonged to”
    “1900, James Wideman Lee, Naphtali Luccock, and James Main Dixon, The Illustrated History of Methodism, page 345, The Methodist Magazine Publishing Co. And she continued her infamous trade of procuress, while a zealous and regular attender of the Tabernacle at Tottenham-Court!”
    “The great distance that some youth travel...is bound to play its part in the case of the borderline student who becomes an infrequent attender and finally drops out of school.”
    “If there is no spiritual distinction between member and attender, the question is asked, Why have membership at all?”
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noun

  1. An attendee; one who attends a course, meeting, school, etc.
    “She was a very constant attender of First-day and week-day meetings, at the meeting places she belonged to”
    “1900, James Wideman Lee, Naphtali Luccock, and James Main Dixon, The Illustrated History of Methodism, page 345, The Methodist Magazine Publishing Co. And she continued her infamous trade of procuress, while a zealous and regular attender of the Tabernacle at Tottenham-Court!”
    “The great distance that some youth travel...is bound to play its part in the case of the borderline student who becomes an infrequent attender and finally drops out of school.”
    “If there is no spiritual distinction between member and attender, the question is asked, Why have membership at all?”
  2. An attendant; one who attends to someone or something.
    “Sri C. Rajabather was appointed to assist in the office as typist attender from 7-4-41.”
  3. The subject; one who experiences.
    “the whole process of ages’-long mentalization, of which our present ability of conceiving “Mind” forms only the culmination, and by no means the constant attender.”
    “Activity of attention for the sake of knowledge changes only the mind of the attender and is resisted only by the habits, biases, laziness and the like”
    “The other aspect pertains to the subject’s own subjectivity, those qualities that constitute the subject as the experiencer or attender.”

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Etymology

From Middle English attender, attendere, equivalent to attend + -er.

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