Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who or that which impeaches or hinders.
- noun One who brings or institutes an impeachment; an accuser.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who impeaches.
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- noun One who
impeaches .
Etymologies
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Examples
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While poor excommunicated Miss Tox, who, if she were a fawner and toad – eater, was at least an honest and a constant one, and had ever borne a faithful friendship towards her impeacher and had been truly absorbed and swallowed up in devotion to the magnificence of Mr
Dombey and Son 2007
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Where there is no impeacher running, we will run and support a write-in candidate, who will bring impeachment into the debate.
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Independents leaned toward electing an impeacher, with 49.3 percent likely and 40.6 percent not likely to vote for a pro-impeachment candidate.
85 Percent of Democrats in PA Likely to Vote for Pro-Impeachment Candidates 2006
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“But, sir,” answered the impeacher, “this is a case that admits of no delay; the person I have apprehended is a prisoner of consequence to the state.”
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He would argue impeachment was certainly enough of shaming, the second president ever to be impeacher, but yet - they see some of the same qualities in Gore, not of course the inability to control his passions.
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When Congress met in December, 1866, Representative James M. Ashley, of the Toledo district of Ohio, commenced operations as chief impeacher of President Johnson.
Perley's Reminiscences, v. 1-2 of Sixty Years in the National Metropolis Benjamin Perley Poore 1853
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A man of the lightest mental calibre and most insufficient capacity, he constituted himself the chief impeacher, and assumed a position that should have been held by a strong-nerved, deep-sighted, able man.
Perley's Reminiscences, v. 1-2 of Sixty Years in the National Metropolis Benjamin Perley Poore 1853
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While poor excommunicated Miss Tox, who, if she were a fawner and toad-eater, was at least an honest and a constant one, and had ever borne a faithful friendship towards her impeacher and had been truly absorbed and swallowed up in devotion to the magnificence of Mr
Dombey and Son Charles Dickens 1841
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He, therefore, was even more unserviceable as a champion against the deliberate impeacher of Christian evidences than my reverend guardian.
Autobiographical Sketches Thomas De Quincey 1822
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"But, sir," answered the impeacher, "this is a case that admits of no delay; the person I have apprehended is a prisoner of consequence to the state."
The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom — Volume 01 Tobias George Smollett 1746
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