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• tempter
  tempter

  noun

  a person or thing that tempts, especially to evil.
• Tempter
  Tempter

  noun

  Satan regarded as trying to lead men into sin

tempter

American  

[temp-ter] / ˈtɛmp tər /

noun

1. a person or thing that tempts, especially to evil.

2. the Tempter, Satan; the devil.

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Tempter British  

/ ˈtɛmptə /

noun

1. Satan regarded as trying to lead men into sin

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Etymology

Origin of tempter

1350–1400; tempt + -er ¹; replacing Middle English temptour < Old French temptere, temptëor < Late Latin temptātōr-, stem of temptātor tempter (to sin), Latin: one who makes an attempt; tempt, -tor

Example Sentences

If Ted could climb out on top, Tempter Kramer would next try to steer him into the U.S. title at Forest Hills in September.

From Time Magazine Archive

But the final time I saw the Tempter, he came in the clothes and body of Joseph, the man who married my mother and raised me--not a bad man but hard on us all.

From Time Magazine Archive

And this other voice, this Tempter, Sure will lead you to the wrong, While the voice of the good angel Fills your life with cheer and song.

From Mother Truth's Melodies Common Sense For Children by Miller, Mrs. E. P.

These Laws we shall find—wrapped up as it were—in our Lord's answers to the Tempter in the wilderness.

From Pastor Pastorum by Latham, Rev. Henry

Armed with the experience in evil of unsummed ages, the Tempter plies his work: nor is it to low or ignoble appetites that he appeals.

From The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed by Miller, Hugh