corrupter
English
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Etymology
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Noun
corrupter (plural corrupters)
- Agent noun of corrupt; one who corrupts.
- 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
- Can love, which always seeks the good of its object, attempt to betray a woman into a bargain where she is so greatly to be the loser? If such corrupter, therefore, should have the impudence to pretend a real affection for her, ought not the woman to regard him […] as the worst of all enemies […] ?
- 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
Translations
one who corrupts
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