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[ noun ] a person who passes by casually or by chance

Synonyms

passer-by passer

Used in print

(Brand Blanshard, "The Emotive Theory," Robert...)

Indeed we should say , on_the_contrary , that the accident of our later discovery made no difference whatever to the badness of the animal 's pain , that it would have been every whit as bad whether a chance passer-by happened later to discover the body and feel repugnance or not .

Related terms

pedestrian travel_by

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