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• n  someone who shares your feelings or opinions and hopes that you will be successful

• An eager, insistent clot of people pushes toward her, and somehow she manages to greet each well-wisher with a fractional recalibration of body language that suggests a wordless .
• Dukakis assured this well-wisher, "I don't worry.
• If the well-wisher thought he was driving a smart wedge between Fascismo and King, he had another think coming fast.

• sympathizer
• sympathiser

News & Articles

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• Grimes fires up supporters during second campaign rollout
  Kentucky Democratic senatorial candidate Alison Lundergan Grimes high-fives a young well-wisher Tuesday July 30, 2013, during her campaign rollout in Lexington, Ky.
  July 31, 2013 - The Glasgow Daily Times

Quotes

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• John Quincy Adams in Terre Haute Tribune Star
  He entered into a written agreement with a very eminent personality, a great friend and well-wisher of Pakistan and this personality has given him a message not to violate this agreement. He should also show character and not violate the... Pervez Musharraf http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pervez_Musharraf&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNFAVhzySYuE3lF9745wqWMC9w52og Udayavani http://www.google.com/url?q=http://68.178.224.54/udayavani/showstory.asp%3Fnews%3D0%26contentid%3D446822%26lang%3D1&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNEszTNAavzbunF2Y6MBGaF04CxpzQ Aug 30, 2007 109642 143711 well-wisher And John Quincy Adams, the country's sixth president, wrote in 1821 that America is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all," but, "she goes not abroad in search of monsters to destroy."
• Adam Vinatieri in Boston Globe (registration)
  My position is very clear. I support the Labour party and I will continue to support if the law allows me. However, irrespective of the fact whether I can support with money, I am a well-wisher and strong supporter of Labour party and its Prime... Swraj Paul http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swaraj_Paul&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNFYsvC4MJbQn8kQoaeQ2No1f5HbCQ Hindu http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/003200907261340.htm&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNFppnnfhgQPgkUtbepg3bf2KzVr5w Jul 26, 2009 109644 143712 well-wishing I have no animosity at all toward that organization," Vinatieri said. "If there is any one thing I can say, I just want to say thank you to all the fans for all the support, for all the well-wishing, and just all the people there that have...