ranter
ranter Lexical Profile
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• noun
A person who speaks, writes, or declaims at length in an angry, impassioned, or wild manner.
"The talk radio host gained notoriety as a relentless political ranter who rarely let his guests finish a sentence."
British A member of a radical antinomian and pantheistic religious sect that arose in England during the 17th-century Commonwealth period, or later applied to early Primitive Methodists known for fervent preaching (often capitalized).
"Seventeenth-century pamphlets frequently denounced the Ranter for rejecting traditional church authority and scripture."
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Word Origin & Etymology
Formed in the mid-17th century from the verb 'rant' (borrowed from Dutch 'ranten', meaning to talk foolishly or rave) combined with the agentive suffix '-er'. In historical contexts, it was also capitalized to denote members of a radical English pantheistic sect during the Commonwealth period.
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