Definition of Smiter

1. n. One who smites.

Definition of Smiter

1. Noun. One who smites. ¹

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Definition of Smiter

1. one that smites [n -S] - See also: smites

Lexicographical Neighbors of Smiter

smirks
smirky
smirnite
smirr
smirred
smirrier
smirriest
smirring
smirrs
smirry
smirs
smirting
smishing
smit
smite
smiter (current term)
smiters
smites
smitest
smiteth
smith
smitham
smithcraft
smithed
smither
smithereens
smitheries
smithers
smithery

Literary usage of Smiter

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Iliad of Homer by Homer, John Graham Cordery (1871)
"^Eneas turn'd, and look'd, and knew the God Apollo, the Far-smiter, face to face Conversing ; then to Hector cried and said : " Hear me, all Chiefs of Troy, ..."

2. Nyasa, the Great Water: Being a Description of the Lake and the Life of the by William Percival Johnson (1922)
"In judging of the resistance that the people of the Lake made to him, we must remember that they had no weapons but bows, while the smiter had spears. ..."

3. The Expositor edited by William Robertson Nicoll, Samuel Cox, James Moffatt (1875)
"... but when we cultivate a truthful spirit; not when we turn the other cheek to the smiter, but when we conquer anger and violence with meekness and love; ..."

4. The History of the Rise, Increase, and Progress of the Christian People by William Sewel (1844)
"And friends, I have a back to lend to the smiter, and 1 have felt your cruel whippings before now, and the Lord hath made me able to bear them ; and as I ..."

5. The Pentateuch in Contrast with the Science and Moral Sense of Our Age by Robert Willis (1875)
"Did a man smite his servant or his maid (his male or female slave) with a rod, and he or she died under his hand, then was the smiter to be surely punished; ..."

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