Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who assails.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who assails.
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- noun One who
assails ; anassailant .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Indiana was handed out by her new adorer, the young baronet; and Eugenia was assisted by her new assailer, the young nobleman.
Camilla 2008
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And thus the dear, once naughty assailer of her innocence, by a blessed turn of
Pamela 2006
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A young woman of low degree, relating to her honest parents the severe trials she met with from a master who ought to have been the protector, not the assailer of her honour, shews the character of
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To censure when censured and assail the assailer, are grave transgressions in the case of a Brahmana.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli
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Its records tell of the murder of Cavagnari in recent times; of the tragedy of Elphinstone's command (1838-42); of Shah Nadir, the butcher of Delhi (1738-39); of Baber Khan, the founder of Mongolian rule in India (1520); of Timur, the assailer of the world (1398); of
Afghanistan and the Anglo-Russian Dispute Theo. F. Rodenbough
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And thus the dear, once haughty, assailer of Pamela's innocence, by a blessed turn of Providence, is become the kind, the generous protector and rewarder of it.
The World's Greatest Books — Volume 07 — Fiction Various 1910
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This is an assailer, and not debtor, a breaker and destroyer, and no sinner but a despoiler, we see him a judge but no beseecher, he comes for to fight and not to be overcome, a caster out and not here a dweller.
The Golden Legend, vol. 1 1230-1298 1900
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Assyria's decline -- the change whereby she passed from the assailer to the assailed, from the undisputed primacy of Western Asia to a doubtful and precarious position.
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Norman knights, that at least we have some weapon wherewith we can parry shaft and smite assailer, -- bring me forth, Godrith, my shield and my
Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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Livid was the glare that shot from the student's eye upon his assailer; and so fearfully did his features work and change with the passions within him that even Walter felt a strange shudder thrill through his frame.
Eugene Aram — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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