discourager

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English

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Etymology

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From discourage +‎ -er.

Noun

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discourager (plural discouragers)

  1. One who discourages.
    • 1849, George Cornewall Lewis, An Essay on the Influence of Authority in Matters of Opinion:
      the promoter of truth and the discourager of error