guiler

English

Etymology

From Middle English giler, gylur, gylour, gilour, from Old French guilëor, equivalent to guile +‎ -er.

Noun

guiler (plural guilers)

1. (obsolete, rare) A deceiver, a beguiler.
   • c. 1385, William Langland, Piers Plowman, section II:

     And þow hast gyuen hire to a gyloure · now god gyf þe sorwe.

   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     But he was wary wise in all his way,
     And well perceived his deceitful sleight,
     Ne suffered Lust his Safety to betray;
     So goodly did beguile the Guiler of the Prey

   • 2017 June 14, Beatrice Groves, Literary Allusion in Harry Potter, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN, page 63:

     The devil is the arch-trickster — who tricked Man with the apple in Eden — and in the 'guiler beguiled' model God beats him at his own game with the ultimate 'trick', or paradox of the God–man Jesus.

Anagrams

• gluier, ligure, reguli, uglier