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Definition of Tempters
1. tempter [n] - See also: tempter
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tempters
Literary usage of Tempters
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Explanatory and Pronouncing Dictionary of the Noted Names of Fiction by William Adolphus Wheeler (1865)
"To fashion's light tempters, her very thought was as closed ae, " Under the
glassy, cool, translucent wave," was the ear of Sabrina to the comrades of ..."
2. Life, Letters, and Literary Remains, of John Keats by John Keats (1848)
"... promised soon From mortal tempters all to make retreat— Aye, even on the first
of the new moon, An immaterial wife to espouse as heaven's boon. ..."
3. The New Timon: A Romance of London by Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton (1846)
"Heaven's own true priest, from earth's worst tempters pure, Gold and Ambition ;—sainted
and obscure! Before his knee, (the Gospel in his hands, And sunshine ..."
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