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Definition of Tempter
1. Noun. A person who tempts others. "Satan is the great tempter of mankind"
Derivative terms: Tempt, Tempt, Tempt, Tempt, Tempt, Tempt
Definition of Tempter
1. n. One who tempts or entices; especially, Satan, or the Devil, regarded as the great enticer to evil.
Definition of Tempter
1. Noun. Someone or something that tempts. ¹
2. Noun. A seducer, especially a man who seduces. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Tempter
1. one that tempts [n -S] - See also: tempts
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tempter
Literary usage of Tempter
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The English Review (1852)
"The Personality of the tempter, and other Sermons, Doctrinal and Occasional,
including a Sermon preached in St. Paul's Cathedral at the Festival of the Sons ..."
2. Sermons by Henry Edward Manning (1848)
"When the tempter came to Him, he said, If Thou be the Son of God, ... It was a
time of peculiar weakness, when, if ever, the tempter might hope to have ..."
3. Chronicon Ephratense: A History of the Community of Seventh Day Baptists at by Lamech, Brother Lamech, Johann Peter Miller, Joseph Maximillian Hark (1889)
"CHAPTER X. THE tempter TRIES TO INSTIGATE A PERSECUTION BY RAISING THE CRY OF
... In the year 1730 the tempter first began openly to raise an outcry of ..."
4. The Journal of Sacred Literature by John Kitto, Henry Burgess, Benjamin Harris Cowper (1853)
"THE FALL: WHO WAS THE tempter? IF we except the death of the Son of God, ...
All we propose doing is simply to inquire, Who was the tempter ? ..."
5. The English Review (1852)
"The Personality of the tempter, and other Sermons, Doctrinal and Occasional,
including a Sermon preached in St. Paul's Cathedral at the Festival of the Sons ..."
6. Sermons by Henry Edward Manning (1848)
"When the tempter came to Him, he said, If Thou be the Son of God, ... It was a
time of peculiar weakness, when, if ever, the tempter might hope to have ..."
7. Chronicon Ephratense: A History of the Community of Seventh Day Baptists at by Lamech, Brother Lamech, Johann Peter Miller, Joseph Maximillian Hark (1889)
"CHAPTER X. THE tempter TRIES TO INSTIGATE A PERSECUTION BY RAISING THE CRY OF
... In the year 1730 the tempter first began openly to raise an outcry of ..."
8. The Journal of Sacred Literature by John Kitto, Henry Burgess, Benjamin Harris Cowper (1853)
"THE FALL: WHO WAS THE tempter? IF we except the death of the Son of God, ...
All we propose doing is simply to inquire, Who was the tempter ? ..."
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