Tempter

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Someone or something that tempts.
  2. 2
    a person who tempts others wordnet
  3. 3
    A seducer, especially a man who seduces.

    "He is a tempter of married women."

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"In decrying the body as something evil, the flesh as the tempter to everything that is sinful, man has mutilated his being in the vain attempt to keep his soul pure, while his body rotted away from the injuries and tortures inflicted upon it."

Etymology

From Middle English tempter, temptere, temptour, temptoure, from Old French tempter, temptere, tenteor, Anglo-Norman tempteour, temptur and Middle English tempten (“to tempt”); equivalent to tempt + -er.

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