affrayer

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It was then clear that it was not another form of ‘afeared’, but wholly separate from it, the participle of the verb ‘to affray’, ‘affrayer’, or, as it is now written, ‘effrayer’ {247}.

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  1. One who raises or is engaged in affrays or riots; a disturber of the peace. [Rare.] Felons, night-walkers, affrayers. M. Dalton, Country Justice (1620).

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  • It was then clear that it was not another form of ‘afeared’, but wholly separate from it, the participle of the verb ‘to affray’, ‘affrayer’, or, as it is now written, ‘effrayer’ {247}. —  English Past and Present
 

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