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Discourager

Discourager \Dis*cour"a*ger\, n. One who discourages.

The promoter of truth and the discourager of error.
--Sir G. C. Lewis.

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discourager

n. One who discourages.

Usage examples of "discourager".

A dash along the hall for the front door meant the raising of an alarm, and probably a bullet as a discourager of burglary.

Now they would fly right into the realm of the Perfidisians, and they would possibly die — or worse — would discover that the Perfidisians, or some power like them, had been the appointed discouragers all along.

He popped his head over the trunk long enough to dispatch three 9mm discouragers toward the house.