peacemaker
See also: Peacemaker
English
Etymology
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Noun
peacemaker (plural peacemakers)
- A person who restores peace, especially by settling disputes.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Matthew 5:9:
- Bleſſed are the peacemakers: foꝛ they ſhall bee called the childꝛen of God.
- 1989 September 3, R. W. Apple, Jr., “Carter the Peacemaker Now Turns to Ethiopia”, in New York Times[1]:
- Mr. Carter has celebrated experience as a peacemaker: he mediated the 1978 peace talks between Israel and Egypt at Camp David.
- 2018, Derek B. Miller, American By Day, page 208:
- We're not just the law, Joe. We're the peacemakers. Like the old Colts.
- (non-native speakers' English, medicine) Misconstruction of pacemaker.
- 2010, M. Valderrama, V. Navarro, M. Le Van Quyen, " Heart rate variability as measurement of heart-brain interactions", in Epilepsies:
- Indeed, although the activity of the heart depends on the intrinsic rhythm of its peacemaker […]
- 2014, S. Samad, SA. Khan, A. Haq, A. Riaz, "Classification of arrhythmia", in the International Journal of Electrical Energy:
- The “heart’s peacemaker” is the node from which the electrical signal for heart beat are […]
- 2010, M. Valderrama, V. Navarro, M. Le Van Quyen, " Heart rate variability as measurement of heart-brain interactions", in Epilepsies:
Translations
someone who restores peace, especially by settling disputes
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