Meaning

1 senses
  1. Someone or something that tempts, especially a man that tempts.

    (obsolete)

    He is a tempter of married women.

    Verführer, Versucher

    a person who tempts others

Translations

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By meaning 1
Someone that tempts:

Origin

From Middle English tempter, temptere, temptour, temptoure, from Old French tempter, tempt

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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Forms

plural: tempters
Singulartempter
Pluraltempters

regular

Synonyms

3 synonyms

Word family

2 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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