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tempter
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Wiktionary
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n. 1 Someone or something that tempts. 2 A seducer, especially a man who seduces.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tempter \Tempt"er\, n. One who tempts or entices; especially, Satan, or the Devil, regarded as the great enticer to evil. ``Those who are bent to do wickedly will never want tempters to urge them on.'' --Tillotson. So glozed the Tempter, and his ...
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n. a person who tempts others; "Satan is the great tempter of mankind"
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Tempter is the debut album by the Dutch death metal band Nembrionic Hammerdeath . It was released in 1993 as a split CD with Consolation 's debut album Beautyfilth by Displeased Records . Later, it was re-issued by itself.
Usage examples of tempter.
Through all temptation, and the Tempter foiled In all his wiles, defeated and repulsed, And Eden raised in the waste Wilderness.
THE FOURTH BOOK Perplexed and troubled at his bad success The Tempter stood, nor had what to reply, Discovered in his fraud, thrown from his hope So oft, and the persuasive rhetoric That sleeked his tongue, and won so much on Eve, So little here, nay lost.
Where they shall dwell secure, when time shall be, Of tempter and temptation without fear.
The tempter would also much assault me with this, HOW CAN YOU TELL BUT THAT THE Turks HAD AS GOOD SCRIPTURES TO PROVE THEIR Mahomet THE SAVIOUR, AS WE HAVE TO PROVE OUR JESUS IS?
Now I began to conceive peace in my soul, and methought I saw, as if the tempter did leer and steal away from me, as being ashamed of what he had done.
Again, when as sometimes I have been about to preach upon some smart and searching portion of the word, I have found the tempter suggest, WHAT!
But yet all the things of God were kept out of my sight, and still the tempter followed me with, BUT WHITHER MUST YOU GO WHEN YOU DIE?
Each word of the Tempter fell like a drop of poison on his heart, engendering and hatching the worms within.
You will soon find the tempter at work, and man trying to hide himself from God.
In an evil hour I listened to the tempter and wrote a forged note for that amount.
The silly soul becomes so full of his tempter, and of himself in and through her, that he loses interest in all else, cares for nobody but her, prizes nothing but her regard, broods upon nothing but her favours, looks forward to nothing but again her presence and further favours.
But I heard it as the voice of the tempter, and kept down the thought which might have grown to the will.
Barmby started himself in the dream of his uninterred passion for the maiden: he chased it, seized it, hurled it hence, as a present sacrilege:--constantly, and at the pitch of our highest devotion to serve, are we assailed by the tempter!
V Thou animatest ancient tales, To prove our world of linear seed: Thy very virtue now assails, A tempter to mislead.
Not Christ, though Christ may have visited him in those dreams of his boyhood, but the Negative, the Tempter, with deceptions and promises.