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well-wisher

[ wel-wish-er ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

well-wisher

First recorded in 1580–90

At least that's what one well-wisher who met Kate Middleton as she went walkabout today thinks.

She told one well-wisher who asked that her baby had been kicking "very much".

No well-wisher of India, no patriot dare look upon the impending destruction of the hand-loom weaver with equanimity.

"I come to you from a well-wisher," he went on in oily tones, without lifting his eyes.

For is he not a well-wisher of the French Revolution, a Jacobin, and therefore in that one act guilty of all?

I am a well wisher to the Company, and also to America; but death to an American is more desirable than slavery.

He was conscious of a willingness to consider it himself, as a friend of the family and a well-wisher of Chubbins.

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