noun

• 1A person or thing that tempts.

  ‘You've got two villains here - the tempters and the tempted.’

  More example sentences

  • ‘The temptress and tempters have described their seduction technique.’
  • ‘The walk is visually stunning for anyone used to a dry, brown landscape, and a serious tempter for more.’
  • ‘He is the subtle tempter of man's moral balance.’
  • ‘The women are both tempters and comforters.’
  • ‘The tempters know their limitations: only the individual can bring about his own damnation.’
  • ‘The tempter this time has been resisted.’
  • ‘Satan is the insidious tempter who whispers in men's hearts.’
  • ‘The destructive tempter is within as much as without.’
  • ‘The devil is a prominent character in the film, and takes the role of tempter and power broker.’
  • ‘Many varieties of religion have long spoken about a Satan or tempter.’

  1. 1.1the TempterThe Devil.
     ‘Jesus resisted the Tempter.’
     More example sentences

     • ‘He is quite unlike the biblical Tempter in his actions.’
     • ‘His grapples with the Tempter are portrayed in dark, unsettling detail.’
     • ‘This is Satan the Tempter: jovial, charming and utterly plausible.’
     • ‘There is little appreciation of the documented tricks of The Tempter.’
     • ‘His very name, Satan, means Tempter.’
     • ‘It was as if Tempter was standing in front of her.’