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单词 assaulter
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assaultern.

Brit. /əˈsɔːltə/, /əˈsɒltə/, U.S. /əˈsɔltər/, /əˈsɑltər/
Forms: Also assaultair, assaultour.
Etymology: < assault v. + -er suffix1. Compare Old French assauteur, Anglo-Norman assaultour, also occasionally followed in English spelling.
One who assaults, an attacker or assailant.
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society > armed hostility > warrior > attacker > [noun]
assailera1400
assailant1523
assaulter1548
setter-on1569
aggressor1585
onsetter1588
offendent1646
attacker1664
inundator1794
the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > hostile action or attack > [noun] > attack by some hostile or injurious agency > that which
assailant1781
assaulter1796
1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. cxxxiijv The assaulters to deuise, all maner of engynes for the assaultyng.
1566 J. Knox Hist. Reformation in Wks. (1846) I. 212 And receaved the first assaultairis upon the pointis of thare spearis.
1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis ii. 34 The Troians..the assaultours with weak force vaynely repulsed.
1796 F. Burney Camilla IV. viii. ix. 355 Admiration is a dangerous assaulter of diffidence.
1837 T. Campbell Poet. Wks. (new ed.) 186 For we've sworn by our Country's assaulters, By the virgins they've dragg'd from our altars.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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