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Definition of Smiter
1. n. One who smites.
Definition of Smiter
1. Noun. One who smites. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Smiter
1. one that smites [n -S] - See also: smites
Lexicographical Neighbors of Smiter
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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