encounterer
English edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
encounterer (plural encounterers)
- One who encounters; an opponent or antagonist.
- 1687, Francis Atterbury, An Answer to Some Considerations on the Spirit of Martin Luther:
- The doctrines of the Reformation have , for near two centuries , kept the field against all encounterers
References edit
- “encounterer”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.