α. 1500s– defeater.
β. 1800s defeator.
defeatern.
/dᵻˈfiːtə/, U.S. /dəˈfidər/, /diˈfidər/ A person who or thing which defeats someone or something.
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society > armed hostility > warrior > victor or conqueror > [noun]
masterc1230
conqueror1307
victora1340
overcomerc1350
scomfitera1400
vanquisher1474
vainquer1481
conquestora1513
dauntera1522
overwhelmera1522
discomfiter1528
overwinner1535
cock1542
victorer1553
triumphant1562
triumphera1569
vanquer1570
Tamerlane?1572
defeater1582
vanqueror1583
triumphator1611
conquesor1641
conquestora1670
debellator1713
reconqueror1777
subjugator1795
conquistador1830
the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > mastery or superiority > [noun] > prevailing or mastering > overcoming or overwhelming > one who
masterc1230
overcomerc1350
conquerorc1374
victora1400
overbearera1425
overgangerc1440
vanquisher1474
usurper1509
subduer1516
overthrower1548
defeater1582
prevailer1596
masterer1600
queller1613
conquerant1655
dompter1672
1582 R. Mulcaster 1st Pt. Elementarie Peroration 248 An hindrer to peace, and a pernicious defeater of the best publik end.
1665 D. Lloyd States-men & Favourites Eng. 403 His Policy being the principal Defeater of Duke Dudley's Designe to dis-inherit them.
1711 P. Paxton Specimen Physico-Medicum i. ix. 171 The Contrivers or Defeaters of this Doctrine have more particularly narrowed it to Diseases.
1770 Gen. Evening Post 13 Feb. A defeater of the foe.
1844 M. F. Tupper Crock of Gold xiii. 110 That inevitable defeator of all printed secrets—impatience.
1864 G. A. Sala in Daily Tel. 11 Oct. The loss inflicted by the defeated on the defeater.
1901 Eng. Illustr. Mag. June 288/2 The defeater of the Danes, the patron of learning, and the founder of the English Navy—the good King Alfred the Great.
1958 B. Bolles Big Change in Europe xvi. 423 He elevated the Soviet Union into the heroic role of solitary defeater of Hitler's Germany in World War II.
2013 S. Coakley in M. A. Nowak & S. Coakley Evol., Games & God xx. 357 [Problems] so profound as to cause many to see Darwinism as a defeater of Christian belief.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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