appealer

noun — 2 senses

appealer

noun

Etymology From appeal + -er.

1

Someone who makes an appeal; an appellant.

2

Human sciences, Linguistics, Sciences A speech act intended as an appeal.

  • Complex expletives in turn-final position were also used as a kind of deprecatory appealers, e.g. in God's name, for God's sake and for heaven's sake.2014, Karin Aijmer, Bengt Altenberg, English Corpus Linguistics, page 251:

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