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committer en · NOUN

Etymology

Etymology tree Latin committōbor. Middle English committen English commit English -er English committer From commit + -er.

Meanings

1. A person who is authorized to make changes to source code or other material in a repository.
2. (obsolete) A fornicator.
   • The ſin of many men Is within you, and thus much I ſuppose That if all committers stood in ranke, They'd make a lane[…] <br<And with their spaces reach from hence to hell. 1604, Thomas Dekker, Thomas Middleton, The Honest Whore:
3. (obsolete) A person who commits a crime; perpetrator.
   • For some here affirm, that Sin is said to be the Punishment of Sin, because in most sinful Actions, the Committer of them is really a Sufferer in and by the very Sin which he commits 1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London:

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