† pairern.
Obsolete. rare.
A person who corrupts or harms something.In quot. 1543: spec. a person who mutilates coins.
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the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > [noun] > a harmful thing or person > person
pairer1408
blemisher1423
hinderer1532
depraver1557
scathe-causer1559
impairera1586
injurier1598
injurer1611
depravator1616
contaminator1820
the mind > goodness and badness > badness or evil > worse > [noun] > one who or that which
appairer1382
pairer1408
impairera1586
retrograde1633
aggravativea1734
witherer1828
1408 Prol. Catholic Epist. in Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (Fairf.) 595 A peirer [a1425 Royal enuyouse mennus teeth..seyn that Y am an apeirer of hooli scripturis; a1382 E.V. a falsere, and a distroȝere, or apeirere].
1543 ( Chron. J. Hardyng (1812) 283 (MED) The kyng then did great right and iustice Vpon clippers and peirers of the coyne.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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