Disappointer
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 One who or that which disappoints (all senses).
"1671, Robert McWard, The Case of the Accommodation Lately Proposed by the Bishop of Dumblane, Letter 1, Post-Script, p. 102, Oh when shall the loud and harsh noises of our debates be turned to the sweeter sound of united prayers for this blessed peace […] and if we be real supplicants for it, we would bewar of being the disappointers of our own desires, and of obstructing the blessing we pray for,"
Example
More examples"1671, Robert McWard, The Case of the Accommodation Lately Proposed by the Bishop of Dumblane, Letter 1, Post-Script, p. 102, Oh when shall the loud and harsh noises of our debates be turned to the sweeter sound of united prayers for this blessed peace […] and if we be real supplicants for it, we would bewar of being the disappointers of our own desires, and of obstructing the blessing we pray for,"
Etymology
From disappoint + -er.