Committer

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A person who is authorized to make changes to source code or other material in a repository.
  2. 2
    A fornicator. obsolete

    "The ſin of many men Is within you, and thus much I ſuppose That if all committers stood in ranke, They'd make a lane[…] <br<And with their spaces reach from hence to hell."

  3. 3
    A person who commits a crime; perpetrator. obsolete

    "For some here affirm, that Sin is said to be the Punishment of Sin, because in most sinful Actions, the Committer of them is really a Sufferer in and by the very Sin which he commits"

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Example

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"The ſin of many men Is within you, and thus much I ſuppose That if all committers stood in ranke, They'd make a lane[…] <br<And with their spaces reach from hence to hell."

Etymology

From commit + -er.

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