Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who or that which impeaches or hinders.
  • noun One who brings or institutes an impeachment; an accuser.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who impeaches.

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  • noun One who impeaches.

Etymologies

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impeach +‎ -er

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Examples

  • While poor excommunicated Miss Tox, who, if she were a fawner and toad – eater, was at least an honest and a constant one, and had ever borne a faithful friendship towards her impeacher and had been truly absorbed and swallowed up in devotion to the magnificence of Mr

    Dombey and Son 2007

  • Where there is no impeacher running, we will run and support a write-in candidate, who will bring impeachment into the debate.

    FAQ'S ABOUT IMPEACHMENT 2006

  • Independents leaned toward electing an impeacher, with 49.3 percent likely and 40.6 percent not likely to vote for a pro-impeachment candidate.

    85 Percent of Democrats in PA Likely to Vote for Pro-Impeachment Candidates 2006

  • “But, sir,” answered the impeacher, “this is a case that admits of no delay; the person I have apprehended is a prisoner of consequence to the state.”

    The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom 2004

  • He would argue impeachment was certainly enough of shaming, the second president ever to be impeacher, but yet - they see some of the same qualities in Gore, not of course the inability to control his passions.

    CNN Transcript - Larry King Live: Dick Cheney Discusses the Final Days of Campaign 2000 - October 27, 2000 2000

  • When Congress met in December, 1866, Representative James M. Ashley, of the Toledo district of Ohio, commenced operations as chief impeacher of President Johnson.

    Perley's Reminiscences, v. 1-2 of Sixty Years in the National Metropolis Benjamin Perley Poore 1853

  • A man of the lightest mental calibre and most insufficient capacity, he constituted himself the chief impeacher, and assumed a position that should have been held by a strong-nerved, deep-sighted, able man.

    Perley's Reminiscences, v. 1-2 of Sixty Years in the National Metropolis Benjamin Perley Poore 1853

  • While poor excommunicated Miss Tox, who, if she were a fawner and toad-eater, was at least an honest and a constant one, and had ever borne a faithful friendship towards her impeacher and had been truly absorbed and swallowed up in devotion to the magnificence of Mr

    Dombey and Son Charles Dickens 1841

  • He, therefore, was even more unserviceable as a champion against the deliberate impeacher of Christian evidences than my reverend guardian.

    Autobiographical Sketches Thomas De Quincey 1822

  • "But, sir," answered the impeacher, "this is a case that admits of no delay; the person I have apprehended is a prisoner of consequence to the state."

    The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom — Volume 01 Tobias George Smollett 1746

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