(n.) One of a religious sect which sprung up in 1645; -- called also Seekers. See Seeker.
(n.) One of the Primitive Methodists, who seceded from the Wesleyan Methodists on the ground of their deficiency in fervor and zeal; -- so called in contempt.
Example Sentences:
(1) They seem to think in a toxic media market, dominated by professional ranters and by one player, News Corp, intent on using its market dominance to pursue bleedingly obvious political and commercial agendas – that the ABC is not only comprehensive and reliable, but essential.
(2) Within this apocalyptic tradition, Cohn identified the Flagellants who massacred the Jews of Frankfurt in 1349; the widespread heresy of the Free Spirit; the 16th-century Anabaptist theocracy of Münster (though some have criticised Cohn's account of this extraordinary event as lurid); the Bohemian Hussites; the instigators of the German peasants' war; and the Ranters of the English civil war.
(3) For Abbott, on the precipice of fulfilling his destiny in politics, it would have seemed like collegiality, not outright soul-selling, to become a man for Peta and for Brian down in party headquarters, a man for the colleagues, a man for the Liberal party base, a man for Rupert and for Alan Jones and for Ray Hadley (when Scott Morrison wasn’t available) – a man who would validate the various irrationalisms of the wireless ranters and the white male columnists in Rupert’s employ – young and older fogeys who cherish past certainties, and who feel just as ambivalent about the future as Abbott himself feels.
(4) It is a book fair in October with "all-day cabaret starring assorted ranters, poets, singers and comics; all-day film showings and two kids' spaces".
(5) MSNBC's resident ranter and news commentator Keith Olbermann – who once described a Republican senator as "an irresponsible, homophobic, racist, reactionary, ex-nude model" – tweeted his umbrage at Stewart's intimation that he is unhelpfully hyperbolic, possibly before smashing his Blackberry underfoot.
(6) The derogatory comedy of Bernard Manning and Benny Hill was elbowed off the airwaves by proudly anti-racist, anti-sexist comics of the younger generation: anti-Thatcher ranter Ben Elton; Alexei Sayle, who describes his younger self as "a fat man in a suit, shouting at people for not being political enough"; feminist comics French and Saunders, Emma Thompson and Jo Brand.
(7) This week he will be interviewed by the rightwing ranter, radio host Rush Limbaugh, Limbaugh's TV equivalents, all three prime time hosts on Fox News, and play verbal softball with Oprah Winfrey.
(8) We were correct not to engage with the ranters on the right.
(9) More pub ranter than soundbite-spewing talking head.
(10) This has not been not a harmonious year, and male rage is definitely part of the landscape – the trolls, men’s rights movement misogynists, Gamergate ranters, and the perpetrators of the actual violence, which has not stopped.
(11) An intriguing snapshot of a hack's navel, it at least earned me the grand sobriquet "Ranter of the Guardian" in the Daily Mail (who know a thing or two about publishing ill-thought-through opinions themselves, after all), though the affair needn't be examined in any further detail here.
(12) This week’s cause for irritability is the stupidity of both the pro-privatisation lobby (the government and red-necked Conservatives, who want to privatise everything that moves) and the anti-privatisationists (the “keep your mucky capitalist hands off our perfect NHS” ranters).
(13) More than any other modern novelist, he has used fiction as confession and the displacement of confession: his ranters, complainers and alter egos, from Portnoy to Zuckerman to Mickey Sabbath all seem Rothian, even when they are only standing in for Roth.
Renter
Definition:
(n.) One who rents or leases an estate; -- usually said of a lessee or tenant.
(v. t.) To sew together so that the seam is scarcely visible; to sew up with skill and nicety; to finedraw.
(v. t.) To restore the original design of, by working in new warp; -- said with reference to tapestry.
Example Sentences:
(1) LCP said one- and two-bedroom flats in the centre of the city were popular with corporate renters and international students, and that demand was fuelling rental growth.
(2) There is no evidence that buying a house means you personallly lose your job a couple of years down the line, which suggests Britons will not easily be turned on by the idea of becoming a nation of renters.
(3) The paradox is that while Fergus and Judith Wilson can evict 200 benefit-receiving tenants in their Kent buy-to-let empire, confident they will be replaced by working renters, many from eastern Europe, in other places landlords are heavily reliant on benefits.
(4) The group, which campaigns for more affordable housing, used the English Housing Survey's income profile of private renters, and the Office for National Statistics' latest house price index, to work out how many people could afford the average first home, based on the assumption that a home is affordable if it is no more than four times household income.
(5) Other politicians think all housing problems can be tackled by simply building more houses, but Corbyn has recognised that this alone won’t give private renters the rights they need.” Both Corbyn and Healey made clear that housing is the biggest problem facing the UK, and committed to policies that many in the housing sector have been long argued for.
(6) Private renters account for more than 20% of the housing market; in 1985 the figure was 9% .
(7) A lack of rights for private renters puts them at risk of sudden eviction, even if they are up to date with the rent.
(8) In 2002, 100,000 private renters in London were forced to claim housing benefit in order to pay the rent; by the end of the New Labour era, rising rents had increased the number to 250,000.
(9) The Resolution Foundation thinktank has warned that the under-35s are becoming permanent renters , with home ownership reserved for the well-off and elderly.
(10) In the rest of Europe, Berlin still enjoys a reputation as a renters' paradise.
(11) We need to bring an end to these extortionate prices and give people real choices, by building the homes this nation needs.” UK tenants pay more rent than any country in Europe Read more Roger Harding for the housing charity Shelter said private renters “are bearing the brunt of our dramatic housing shortage”.
(12) Unaffordable cities: Berlin the renters' haven hit by green fog of eco-scams Read more “I used to be able to pay my rent for the whole month just by working one shift as a waiter,” he said of his housing situation in 2003, when he lived in a shared flat in a now very desirable neighbourhood on the eastern edge of Kreuzberg.
(13) Scrapping funding for these projects would impact low-income households and renters and public housing users who cannot afford or do not otherwise have access to their own panels, head of the Australian Solar Council, John Grimes, told Guardian Australia.
(14) The rise of the landlord-lodger arrangement could help utilise the estimated 15 million unused bedrooms in England alone, giving renters more options and helping squeezed families and retirees cope with the higher cost of living.
(15) Families in the UK pay an average £6,760 a year in housing costs alone, with mortgaged homeowners paying £7,436 compared to £8,320 for private renters, according to the 2010-11 English Housing Survey.
(16) Alex Hilton, director of Generation Rent, said: “As home ownership gets increasingly out of reach, ever more people will find themselves as permanent renters throughout their lives.
(17) For those of us who want a fairer deal for renters, this feels a lot like Groundhog Day – with the joke very much on us.
(18) Britain has up to 11 million private renters, often being charged rip-off rents and deprived of basic housing security.
(19) Ministers say the change tackles an unfair spare room subsidy not available to private-sector renters and suggest it will save around £500m a year as part of the government's deficit-reduction strategy.
(20) Banning upfront letting agency fees Facebook Twitter Pinterest To Let Signs on New Housing, houses, homes, houses for rent Photograph: Alamy Widely trailed as a plan to help “just about managing’ familes, the government’s plan to ban spiralling letting agency fees will benefit renters if it is introduced as planned.