christer

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Pronunciation 1.3 Noun 1.3.1 Synonyms

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[edit] Etymology

Christ +‎ -er

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christer (plural christers)

1. A Christian who publicly displays his or her religion.
   • 1917, L. V. Hodgkin, A Book of Quaker Saints,

     The village people called his father 'Righteous Christer,' which shows that he too must have been 'stiff as a tree' in following what he knew to be right.

2. (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) (British) An exclamation point.
   • 1921, H. L. Mencken, The American Language, 5. Expletives and Forbidden Words

     The word Christer has two meanings in England. It is used by printers to designate an exclamation point, and by other people in a sense which I can best explain by illustration. A Harvard professor, an Englishman, was discussing a certain English journalist then in this country, and he said to me: ‘Oh, he’s a simply fearful Christer; preaches in chapel every Sunday, and all that.’

[edit] Synonyms

• (person who publicly displays his religion): fundamentalist, fanatic, witness