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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology
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-or1 suffix of agent-nouns repr. ult. (i) L.
-or chiefly as appended to pp. stems, as in the comp. forms
-TOR,
-ATOR,
-itor, and
-(s)sor (e.g.
censor,
oppressor,
sponsor); (ii L.
-ātōrem,
-itōrem (nom.
-ātor,
-itor), whence OF.
-ëo(u)r, later and mod.
-eur (see
-OUR1). It has been generalized in legal use for the terms corr. to those in -EE1. In, e.g.,
bachelor,
chancellor,
sailor,
-or has superseded other endings.
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Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
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Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Literature
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Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...Reading Evaluations of Haskins as a historian are in John Higham and others, History (1965); as a peacemaker, in Edward Mandell House and Charles Seymour, What Really Happened at Paris: The Story of the Peace Conference, 1918-19 (1921...
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