appealer

English

Etymology

appeal +‎ -er

Noun

appealer (plural appealers)

  1. One who makes an appeal.
  2. (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.

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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for appealer in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

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