[f. BRUIT v. + -ER1.] One who spreads a report, rumor, etc.

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1535.  T. Cromwell, in Strype, Eccl. Mem., I. App. lxviii. To have compressed the bruters therof to silence.

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1548.  Udall, etc., Erasm. Par. John, 50. The bruters abrode of all the thynges that he wroughte.

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1638.  Heywood, Rape Lucr., Wks. 1874, V. 226. Then be the bruter Of thy owne shame.

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