Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who occasions, causes, or produces.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who, or that which, occasions, causes, or produces.
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- noun
agent noun ofoccasion ; one whooccasions
Etymologies
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occasion + -er
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Examples
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He is an occasioner of disloyal thoughts in the commonwealth, for he makes men hate the king's name worse than the devil's.
Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters John Earle
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He calls it his apology for his Bristol excursion, which — can you believe it, Harriet! — the little portrait, that I was so much disturbed about losing, was the great occasioner of his journey!
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