Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who strengthens or upholds.
  • noun One who fortifies, or constructs fortifications.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who, or that which, fortifies, strengthens, supports, or upholds.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun One who fortifies.

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

to fortify + -er.

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Examples

  • Ne pouvant fortifier la justice, on a justifié la force.

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  • This fortifier drew kudos for elevating droopy roots to beauty-contestant-like heights in a good way!

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  • Human blood was considered an excellent fortifier; weak patients were given blood to drink, while lepers soaked their limbs in tubs of blood.

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  • Human blood was considered an excellent fortifier; weak patients were given blood to drink, while lepers soaked their limbs in tubs of blood.

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  • • Human milk fortifier: Human milk fortifier is a nutrient preparation usually used to meet the special growth needs of low–birth weight breastfed babies.

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  • • Human milk fortifier: Human milk fortifier is a nutrient preparation usually used to meet the special growth needs of low–birth weight breastfed babies.

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  • Sara mixing the milk & fortifier in our home chemistry lab last night, he was also somewhat grumpy, crying and fussing, and burping and grumbling.

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  • Sara mixing the milk & fortifier in our home chemistry lab last night, he was also somewhat grumpy, crying and fussing, and burping and grumbling.

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  • It is evident that he had need of that fortifier and refresher.

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  • But M. Gioanni Marmori, a fortifier, had deuised a certaine kinde of ioyned boords, the which being caried of the souldiers, defended them from the shot of the harquebuzers, so that some other quantity of earth, but no great store, was caried also away: in the which place this foresayd fortifier was slaine, who had done especiall good seruice in all our necessary affaires.

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