Meanings
plural appealers
- human sciencesA speech act intended as an appeal.
Complex expletives in turn-final position were also used as a kind of deprecatory appealers, e.g. in God's name, for God's sake and for heaven's sake.
2014, Karin Aijmer, Bengt Altenberg, English Corpus Linguistics, page 251
Origin
Translations
Portuguese apelante
- apelanteone who makes an appeal
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