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SEE DEFINITION OF assailer

nounattacker

Synonyms for assailer

assailant
assaulter

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assaulter

noun. attacker

assailant
assailer

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Word Origin & History

c.1200, from Old French assalir "attack, assault, assail" (12c., Modern French assaillir), from Vulgar Latin *adsalire "to leap at," from Latin ad- "at" (see ad-) + salire "to leap" (see salient (adj.)). Figurative use from mid-14c. Related: Assailed; assailing; assailable.

Example Sentences forassailer

It is always safe to call an assailer of morality licentious, though many of its defenders be not virtuous.

The assailer not assailed sustains the injury, When vice would sully purity.

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