promiser
- a word derived from promise.
Example Sentences
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The oratorical type Is the emotional type, expansive, a quick promiser who can diagnose evils and cannot prescribe for them, and of course rarely cures them.
From Time Magazine Archive
Jr.'s help, Jack Kennedy can hardly outdo Hubert Humphrey as a convincing promiser of New Deal benefits.
From Time Magazine Archive
Suppose one person promises another that he will take him out to sail on the lake on a certain day; then, when the day comes, the promiser proposes to go in the steamboat.
From Rollo in Geneva by Abbott, Jacob
It was perfectly apparent that Mr. Wagg proposed to keep his eye on the promiser of the fifty-fifty split.
From When Egypt Went Broke by Day, Holman
But these gentlemen seemed to fear that, if they should take United States bonds in payment, they might awake some morning in these troublous times to find their promiser a bankrupt or a repudiationist.
From Abraham Lincoln, Volume II by Morse, John T. (John Torrey)
