appealer

English

Etymology

appeal + -er

Noun

appealer (plural appealers)

  1. Someone who makes an appeal; an appellant.
  2. (linguistics) A speech act intended as an appeal.
    • 2014, Karin Aijmer, Bengt Altenberg, English Corpus Linguistics, page 251:
      Complex expletives in turn-final position were also used as a kind of deprecatory appealers, e.g. in God's name, for God's sake and for heaven's sake.

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