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perverter|pəˈvɜːtə(r)| [f. pervert v. + -er1.] One who perverts, or turns from right to wrong; one who misinterprets or corrupts.
1546Langley Pol. Verg. De Invent. vii. i. 131 The deuil, peruerter of all good thinges. 1648W. Jenkyn Blind Guide i. 6 He is a soul perverter. 1779–81Johnson L.P., Pope Wks. IV. 98 Perverters of epistolary integrity. 1807G. Chalmers Caledonia I. ii. vi. 302 This story is retold by Buchanan, and by the other perverters of the Scottish history. 1889Doyle Micah Clarke xviii. 175 The crown which he had wrested..from the Popish perverter. |