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comˈplainer
[f. complain v. + -er1.]
1. One who complains or gives audible expression to a sense of injury; a fault-finder, murmurer.
1526Tindale Jude 16 These are murmurers, complayners, walkynge after their awne lustes. 1633J. Clarke Twofold Praxis 71 No busie complainer: nor yet no hider of truth. 1762Beattie Hermit ii, Mourn, sweetest complainer, man calls thee to mourn. 1837H. Martineau Soc. Amer. II. 96 The most emphatic complainers of the immigration of foreigners. 1878Jevons Prim. Pol. Econ. 8 These complainers misunderstand the purpose of a science like political economy.
2. Law. = complainant. (The spec. Sc. term.)
1542Brinklow Compl. xv. 38 To forfet his whole flocke, half to the kyng and half to the complayner. c1565Lindesay (Pitscottie) Chron. Scot. (1728) 35 He dealt their Land, Goods, and Gear to their Creditors and Complainers. 1746–7Act 20 Geo. II, c. 43 §35 The said judge..shall condemn the appellant or complainer in such costs as the court shall think proper. 1876R. Phillimore in Law Rep. 1 P. Div. 408 The law has always required..all reasonable promptitude to be exhibited by the complainer in seeking legal redress. 1888Daily News 17 July 5/2 In Scotland a complainant is a complainer..and a plaintiff a pursuer. |