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informer (iou) and Seven Weeks' War (sh)


informer (iou)



informer noun. LME.
[from INFORM verb + -ER1.]
I. An instructor, a teacher. LME-M17.
R. Mathews Experience which is the truest informer, speaks aloud in this matter also.
A person who gives information or intelligence, an informant. LME.
Sir W. Scott He talks no Gaelic, nor had his informer much English.
A person who informs against another, spec. for reward. E16.
common informer: see COMMON adjective.
R. Macaulay She's an informer. She set the police on us. C. Hope Their campus spy, usually an overworked informer.
II.
A person who or thing which gives form, life, or inspiration. poet. LME.
Pope Nature! informer of the Poet's Art, Whose force alone can raise or melt the heart.

Seven Weeks' War (sh)




or Austro-Prussian War

(June-August 1866) Conflict between Prussia on one side and Austria, Bavaria, Saxony, Hanover, and minor German states on the Other.

A contrived dispute by Prussia's Otto von Bismarck over the Schleswig-Holstein Question resulted in the June 1866 Prussian attack on Austrian forces in Bohemia. The Prussian army, modernized and reorganized by Albrecht Theodor Emil, count von Roon, and Helmuth von Moltke, decisively defeated Austria at the Battle of K?niggr?tz and elsewhere. By August the war was formally concluded by the Treaty of Prague, which assigned Schleswig-Holstein and Other territories to Prussia. The effect of the war was to exclude Austria from Germany.