neglecter

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That no dreamer, no neglecter, Of the present's work unsped, I may wake up and be doing, Life's heroic ends pursuing, Though my past is dead as Hector, And though Hector is twice dead.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846 by Various

The rejecter or the neglecter binds his sin upon himself by his rejection or neglect.

From Expositions of Holy Scripture: St. John Chaps. XV to XXI by Maclaren, Alexander

Then the scholar we are describing, the neglecter rather than the inspector of books, stuffs his volume with firstling violets, roses, and quadrifoils.

From The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author by Burton, John Hill

It burned me like an acid to bear the name of this neglecter of his duties: this skulker behind a bush while other men did his work.

From The Claw by Stockley, Cynthia

Then the scholar we are speaking of, a neglecter rather than an inspecter of books, will stuff his volume with violets, and primroses, with roses and quatrefoil.

From The Love of Books The Philobiblon of Richard de Bury by Thomas, Ernest Chester