Appealer

noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Someone who makes an appeal; an appellant.
  2. 2
    A speech act intended as an appeal.

    "Complex expletives in turn-final position were also used as a kind of deprecatory appealers, e.g. in God's name, for God's sake and for heaven's sake."

Example

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"Complex expletives in turn-final position were also used as a kind of deprecatory appealers, e.g. in God's name, for God's sake and for heaven's sake."

Etymology

From appeal + -er.

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