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.

Translations

one who makes an appeal

• Portuguese: apelante m or f

References

• “appealer”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• reappeal