Enjoyer

[f. ENJOY v. + -ER¹.] One who enjoys. Const. of.

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c. 1600. Shaks., Sonn., lxxv. A miser … proud as an inioyer.

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1607. Hieron, Wks., I. 101. Many enioyers of Gods blessing.

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17[?]. De la Pryme, Diary (1869), 315. Enjoyers of y^e drained lands in their parishes.

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1856. Emerson, Eng. Traits, v. 79. We are forced to use the names [Saxon and Norman] a little mythically, one to represent the worker, and the other the enjoyer.

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1884. Sat. Rev., 7 June, 734/2. A nation cannot be a mere … placid enjoyer of the dividends on the savings and gains of its forefathers.

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