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  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

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Early in the opera, otherworldly figures arrive to urge the ghosts to cross over, with multiple copies of each one’s tempter.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

However, future price increases “will likely incentivize additional supply coming online and tempter pricing upside to an extent,” in Baird’s view.

From Barron's ● Apr. 17, 2026

In it, he draws parallels between Jack Nicholson’s character and the devil: “a tempter who draws people into his sphere of influence.”

From Washington Post ● Mar. 3, 2023

Somebody was the tempter, the proactive initiator, and it wasn't the colleges.

From Salon ● May 27, 2019

“Oh, I think you know what I mean. Somewhere there is a tempter, a serpent, so to speak, and I had to keep them from meeting.”

From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman

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

It might almost be said that he acted the part of Tempter to mankind, bribing them into friendship or possibly only a useful silence.

From Command by William McFee

But how breaks on the baffled Tempter the sublime revelation?

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

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 Daniel Hack Tuke

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