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preˈvailer Now rare.
[f. prevail v. + -er1.]
One who prevails; one who is successful or gains the mastery.
1618Hist. P. Warbeck in Select. fr. Harl. Misc. (1793) 71 That so..they might..be..the better welcomed and entertained with the prevailer. 1670in Somers Tracts I. 14 For want of Discipline, the Prevailers applied themselves to plunder the Baggage. 1721–2Wodrow Hist. Suff. Ch. Scotl. (1828) I. i. ii. 200 He was mighty in prayer and a singular prevailer. 1800A. Swanston Serm. & Lect. I. 437 It signifies a princely prevailer with God. |