appreciator

Noun

appreciator (plural appreciators)

1. Someone who values something highly.
   • I find, too, that the chance for appreciation [of imaginative literature] is much increased by being the son of an appreciator, and that these boys who now grow up are caught not only years too late, but two or three births too late, to make the best scholars of.1860, Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Culture”, in The Conduct of Life, Boston: Ticknor and Fields, page 142
   • […] I speak as an appreciator of not just the architecture but the way you have preserved its atmosphere,1993, Vikram Seth, A Suitable Boy, New York: HarperCollins, page 448
2. Someone who assesses or appraises the value of something.
   • Let no chicaning intermediate agent but suffered to pass between the manufacturers and the Company’s warehouse-keepers and sorters, except the sworn appreciators and examiners, according to standard samples, secreted from the view, and from every possible communication with the owners.1779, William Thomson, Travels in Europe, Asia, and Africa, London: J. Murray, published 1782, Letter 47, p. 120
   • that respectable collector and appreciator of religious evidence, Archdeacon Paley1794, Review of The Age of Infidelity, in The English Review, Volume 24, p. 124