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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

You look in vain in the shadow for the consoling image of hope and repose; a medium is spread around that discolours and horrifies, and the Tempter seems to haunt the house.

From Willing to Die by Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan

First Battus came, deep read in worldly art, Whose tongue ne'er knew the secrets of his heart; In mischief mighty, tho' but mean of size, And like the Tempter, ever in disguise.

From Chapters in the History of the Insane in the British Isles by Tuke, Daniel Hack

The Tempter was very near now, glorying in the preliminary moves of Vanity, his stanch ally.

From The Transgression of Andrew Vane a novel by Carryl, Guy Wetmore