harmer
nounEtymology From harm + -er.
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Rare One who harms.
- Turning to the post-Beowulf Cynewulfian poems, one notes the same duality between spiritual and natural "harmers" in the use of the word.1961, Sietze Buning, A linguistic analysis of words referring to monsters in Beowulf:
- And if the rich succeed in using the surplus, they would also be the first harmers because the poor are thereby made worse off.2013, James P. Sterba, From Rationality to Equality, page 180:
- Derived terms
- self-harmer