entrappern.
/ᵻnˈtrapə/, /ɛnˈtrapə/, U.S. /ᵻnˈtræpər/, /ɛnˈtræpər/ A person who or thing which entraps someone or something (in various senses of entrap v.1).
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > snare, trap, entanglement > [noun] > one who entraps
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catcherc1450
fodea1529
misleader1579
Sinon1581
entrapper1587
siren1592
snarer1597
flycatcher1600
ensnarer1631
decoy1639
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trepan1653
trepanner1659
1587 B. Yong tr. G. Boccaccio Amorous Fiammetta iv. f. 74v Thou art the first occasion of my lost libertie, the first entrapper [It. prenditrice] of my deere Panphilus.
1593 T. Nashe Christs Teares f. 89 The Pyt-fal..that sathan (our old entrapper) layes for vs.
1630 J. Sharpe Triall Protestant Priuate Spirit ix. 289 In Greeke he [sc. Satan] is called..a tempter, or..an entrapper or calumniator.
1681 I. Chauncy Catholick Hierarchie viii. 45 Such as is laid by the malicious World and Pharisees, who are plotting and contriving entrappers of Gods people.
1765 London Evening-Post 22 Jan. This horrible doctrine..would..make them [sc. Juries] the entrappers of the Rights and Liberties of their countrymen, instead of the defenders of them.
1798 M. Edgeworth & R. L. Edgeworth Pract. Educ. I. v. 140 ‘Oh, Ho!’ exclaims the entrapper, ‘I have you now!’
1829 N.-Y. Spectator 8 Dec. We have..the sly entrapper of the finny tribes.
1863 J. F. Maguire Father Mathew 219 The practised entrapper of unsuspecting youth.
1922 E. R. Peyser Cheating the Junk-Pile xi. 107 Joints and seams are food and odor entrappers.
1994 Times 29 Jan. 16/6 Anita the entrapper, using her feminine wiles to attempt to bring down a guiltless man.
2016 BusinessWorld (Nexis) 25 Apr. s3/4 In case the entrapper is persistent, reach out and try to understand why he is insistent on the only option he is offering.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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