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German
Noun
Wohlthäter m (strong, genitive Wohlthäters, plural Wohlthäter, feminine Wohlthäterin)
- Obsolete spelling of Wohltäter which was deprecated in 1902 following the Second Orthographic Conference of 1901.
1878, Friedrich Nietzsche, Menschliches, Allzumenschliches [Human, All Too Human], section 243:[…] kurz ein guter Arzt bedarf jetzt der Kunstgriffe und Kunstvorrechte aller andern Berufsclassen: so ausgerüstet, ist er dann im Stande, der ganzen Gesellschaft ein Wohlthäter zu werden, durch Vermehrung guter Werke, geistiger Freude und Fruchtbarkeit, durch Verhütung von bösen Gedanken, Vorsätzen, Schurkereien […]- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Declension