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Synonyms of pater 1 ˈpä-ˌter often Pater : paternoster 2 ˈpā-tər [Latin] chiefly British : father The pater is the kindest-hearted old soul, but there are times when he hates me. I'm a thing which every decent middle-class person hates, a problem, like the unemployed, you know, or the ex-soldier. Walter Pater (born , Shadwell, London, England—died , Oxford, Oxfordshire) was an English critic, essayist, and humanist whose advocacy of “art for art’s sake” became a cardinal doctrine of the movement known as Aestheticism.

Shadwell had accompanied Pater on his 1865 visit to Italy, and Pater was to dedicate The Renaissance to him and to write a preface to Shadwell's edition of The Purgatory of Dante Alighieri (1892). Pater is concerned with the disposition of his reader only to the extent he may acknowledge it as the normative view, then depart from it.