Synonyms for ranter


Grammar : Noun
Spell : rant
Phonetic Transcription : rænt

Top 10 synonyms for ranter Other synonyms for the word ranter

Définition of ranter

Origin :
  • c.1600, "to be jovial and boisterous," also "to talk bombastically," from Dutch randten (earlier ranten) "talk foolishly, rave," of unknown origin (cf. German rantzen "to frolic, spring about"). Related: Ranted; ranting. Ranters "antinomian sect which arose in England c.1645" is attested from 1651; applied 1823 to early Methodists. A 1700 slang dictionary has rantipole "a rude wild Boy or Girl" (also as a verb and adjective); to ride rantipole meant "The woman uppermost in the amorous congress" [Grose].
  • As in braggart : noun person who talks boastingly
  • As in reveler : noun carouser
  • As in vaunter : noun braggart
Example sentences :
  • Mike said he was sorry, and expressed his wonder that Ranter could be so cruel.
  • Extract from : « Mike Marble » by Uncle Frank
  • You hate the game-laws; you are a Radical, ranter, and reformer.
  • Extract from : « Cripps, the Carrier » by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore
  • And why should we be delighted with Mr. Macready's delineation, and disgusted with the ranter?
  • Extract from : « A Logic Of Facts » by George Jacob Holyoake
  • And with all the eloquence of Whitfield, had he not many of the qualities of a ranter?
  • Extract from : « The Knickerbocker, Vol. 10, No. 2, August 1837 » by Various
  • Nothing could be less like the ordinary type of the Ranter than Dinah.
  • Extract from : « Adam Bede » by George Eliot
  • Mnster was exhibiting on a large scale what is reproduced in our own land in many a Wesleyan and Ranter revival meeting.
  • Extract from : « Freaks of Fanaticism » by Sabine Baring-Gould
  • "There is nothing of the ranter in me—you know sir," and he used uncomplimentary remarks which I omit.
  • Extract from : « War and the Weird » by Forbes Phillips
  • But if thou wilt need be punishing, then see thou be without sin thyself, and then cast the first stone at the Ranter.
  • Extract from : « The Digger Movement in the Days of the Commonwealth » by Lewis H. Berens
  • Ranter was still for sale, now at a five percent discount “allowed for ready money.”
  • Extract from : « The Cultural History of Marlborough, Virginia » by C. Malcolm Watkins
  • It is clear that Ranter and his colts, as well as the cattle, had not been disposed of at the former sale.
  • Extract from : « The Cultural History of Marlborough, Virginia » by C. Malcolm Watkins
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