harmer en · NOUN
Etymology
From harm + -er.
Meanings
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(rare) One who harms.
And if the rich succeed in using the surplus, they would also be the first harmers because the poor are thereby made worse off.
2013, James P. Sterba, From Rationality to Equality, page 180:Turning to the post-Beowulf Cynewulfian poems, one notes the same duality between spiritual and natural "harmers" in the use of the word.
1961, Sietze Buning, A linguistic analysis of words referring to monsters in Beowulf:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| harmers | Number=Plur | lexicographic |