appealer
English edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
appealer (plural appealers)
- Someone who makes an appeal; an appellant.
- (linguistics) A speech act intended as an appeal.
- 2014, Karin Aijmer, Bengt Altenberg, English Corpus Linguistics, page 251:
- Complex expletives in turn-final position were also used as a kind of deprecatory appealers, e.g. in God's name, for God's sake and for heaven's sake.
Translations edit
one who makes an appeal
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References edit
- “appealer”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.