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  • noun Plural form of inviter.

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Examples

  • Arriving alone (my inviters canceled, but graciously left me a seat at their table), I was utterly overwhelmed.

    Verena von Pfetten: Robin Hood Foundation: Raising My Spirits And Raising The Bar 2008

  • Whatever else they may have been, the summertime invitations were a signal that the inviters did not expect Viet Cong retribution for their actions.

    The Village Bing West 2000

  • Whatever else they may have been, the summertime invitations were a signal that the inviters did not expect Viet Cong retribution for their actions.

    The Village Bing West 2000

  • Whatever else they may have been, the summertime invitations were a signal that the inviters did not expect Viet Cong retribution for their actions.

    The Village Bing West 2000

  • Whatever else they may have been, the summertime invitations were a signal that the inviters did not expect Viet Cong retribution for their actions.

    The Village Bing West 2000

  • The invited were left to amuse themselves as they might until seven or eight o'clock, when the inviters returned, and the whole party sat down to dinner.

    Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847. Various

  • But etiquette does not seem to have been the order of the day, for the inviters had gone out to enjoy their pig-shooting by themselves.

    Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847. Various

  • In that last and most gracious of Gospel invitations, which the incarnate Himself utters in Rev.xxii. 17, among other inviters, the

    The Doctrines of Predestination, Reprobation, and Election Robert Wallace

  • Many a dinner, therefore, did we decline -- many a route did we reject; my husband's popularity tottered, and the inviters, though they no longer dinned their dinners in our ears, and teazed us with their "teas," vowed secret vengeance, and muttered "curses, not loud, but deep."

    The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 404, December 12, 1829 Various

  • Incidentally recounting this prime compliment to my lovely JESSIMINA, I was astounded that she did not share my jubilations, but was, on the contrary, the sore subject at not being included in such invitation, which, as I explained, was totally irrational, seeing that the inviters remained unaware of her nude existence.

    Baboo Jabberjee, B.A. F. Anstey 1895

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