Deputer

noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    One who deputes (deputizes, appoints someone as a deputy). rare

    "[...] such of them as are rich, and of noble lineage; and that the Mob, the real sovereign of France, denounces, robs, and murders, without reason or measure, either the deputers or the deputies, either the innocent or the guilty."

Example

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"[...] such of them as are rich, and of noble lineage; and that the Mob, the real sovereign of France, denounces, robs, and murders, without reason or measure, either the deputers or the deputies, either the innocent or the guilty."

Etymology

From depute + -er.

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