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/tˈɛmptɐ/
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NOUN
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a person who tempts others
Satan is the great tempter of mankind
How To Use tempter In A Sentence
- Don't lose your tempter, act too aggressive, or harshly criticize your children.
- One other slant on this whole thing is that some Gnostic sects believed the Serpent not to be a tempter, but to be a Redeemer.
- He knew that he was as one under temptation, but he was not strong enough to bid the tempter avaunt. He Knew He Was Right
- Tempter," answered Redlaw, "whose hollow look and voice I dread more than words can express, and from whom some dim foreshadowing of greater fear is stealing over me while I speak, I hear again an echo of my own mind. The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain
- 'Wq Ihall fee as foon as a temptation meets with thee, whether the word abides in thee; if it abide, thou wilt not fin, but refill: the tempter. Scripture truths demonstrated, in thirty-two sermons; or, Declarations of Stephen Crisp
- In the meantime, the number of suicide attempters referred to hospitals has continued to present an organizational challenge.
- Satan is the insidious tempter who whispers in men's hearts.
- Satan, then, as the Tempter is the great placer of "scandals, Epistles to the Seven Churches in Asia.
- 'It is not so much,' wilily insinuates the Tempter, 'that these renowned authors lack knowledge. Obiter Dicta
- Then Gletkin would clear his voice and shove his cuffs into place; and Rubashov would rub his pince-nez on his sleeve and nod bewilderedly and drowsily; for he had identified the tempter with that dumb partner whom he had believed already forgotten, and who had no business in this room, of all places: the grammatical fiction ... Autumn