well-wisher
[wel-wish-er]
- a person who wishes well to another person, a cause, etc.
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Origin of well-wisher
First recorded in 1580–90
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Related Words for well-wishing
appreciative, congratulatory, respectful, polite, courtly, fawning, honeyed, laudatory, unctuous, approbatory, commendatory, adulatory, approbative, encomiastic, eulogistic, fair-spoken, honoring, panegyrical, praiseful, sycophanticExamples from the Web for well-wishing
Contemporary Examples of well-wishing
People cheered him and he wore a wide smile, shaking hands and enjoying the well-wishing crowd.
Historical Examples of well-wishing
It is the well-wishing from the hearts of women, who go back to weep in silence.
Pike & CutlassGeorge Gibbs
I felt that in the midst of my family, in the midst of well-wishing hearts, I was lonely.
HaniaHenryk Sienkiewicz
A god might be conceived of as an amiable and well-wishing father, foolishly indulgent toward his children.
Understanding the ScripturesFrancis McConnell
"I wishes ye a gay journey then," the henchman assured him, using the stereotyped phrase of well-wishing, to the wayfarer.
When 'Bear Cat' Went DryCharles Neville Buck
Fortune, or rather the well-wishing wits of friends below, gave Larry a few precious moments more than he had counted on.
Children of the WhirlwindLeroy Scott
well-wisher
- a person who shows benevolence or sympathy towards a person, cause, etc
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