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defyer

defyer is the obsolete spelling of defier.

Meaning of defier

Noun

defier (plural defiers)

  1. Someone who dares, challenges or defies.
    • She droops not; and her eyes rising so high might be hidden by distance; but, being what they are, they cannot be hidden; through the treble veil of crape which she wears, the fierce light of a blazing misery, that rests not for matins or for vespers, for noon of day or noon of night, for ebbing or...c. 1859, Thomas de Quincey, Levana and Our Ladies of Sorrow

Forms of defyer

pluraldefyers

Origin of defyer

From defy + -er.

Questions about defyer

What is defyer the obsolete spelling of?
Defyer is the obsolete spelling of defier.

Words near defyer in the dictionary

  1. defuzzify
  2. defuzzifying
  3. defuzzing
  4. defuzzyfication
  5. defy
  6. defyer
  7. defyers
  8. defying
  9. defying belief
  10. defyingly
  11. Defynnog

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Adapted from Wiktionary: defyer (page history and authors); defier (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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