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English
Etymology
From thirst + -er.
Noun
thirster (plural thirsters)
- Someone who thirsts.
c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. The First Part , 2nd edition, part 1, London: Richard Iones, , published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act II, scene vi:Let’s cheere our ſouldiers to incounter him,
That grieuous image of ingratitude:
That fiery thirſter after Soueraigntie:
And burne him in the fury of that flame,
That none can quench but blood and Empery.
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