Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who attempts, tries, or endeavors.
- noun One who attacks or assails; an assailant.
- noun A tempter. Milton.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who attempts; one who essays anything.
- noun obsolete An assailant; also, a temper.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who
attempts .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun one who tries
Etymologies
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Examples
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A mathematics prodigy and professor, and attempter of suicide.
Free Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: Division By Zero - Ted Chiang Blue Tyson 2010
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A mathematics prodigy and professor, and attempter of suicide.
Archive 2010-06-01 Blue Tyson 2010
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He is a DJ, a good dancer and an attempter of suicide.
Backslide 2008
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He is a DJ, a good dancer and an attempter of suicide.
Backslide 2008
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What vestigia, what remembrances, but such as will inspire abhorrence of the attempter?
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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Thou art apprehensive, that the lady is now truly in danger; and it is a miracle, thou tellest me, if she withstand such an attempter! — ‘Knowing what we know of the sex, thou sayest, thou shouldst dread, wert thou me, to make further trial, lest thou shouldst succeed.’
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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I — “But such of our sex as can thus give up their virtue, ought to expect no better: for he that sticks not at one bad action, will not scruple at another to vindicate himself: and so, devil-like, become the attempter and the accuser too!”
Pamela 2006
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In the long run they merely pervert and spoil the fibre of the attempter, without really benefiting the attemptee.
Tatterdemalion John Galsworthy 1900
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The attempt to intimidate had ignobly failed, and had recoiled upon the attempter.
To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative Richard Francis Burton 1855
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The generous attempter must be reminded of the powers he has within him, perhaps yet unexercised; with cheering sounds his progress must be encouraged; and, above all, the director of the course must take care not to tax him beyond his strength.
Thoughts on Man: His Nature, Productions, and Discoveries 1831
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