[f. FREE v. + -ER1.] One who frees or sets free.
1610. Healey, St. Augustine, Of the Citie of God, xiv. xi. 512. Hee is the freer, that is the Sauiour.
1638. Sir R. Baker, trans. Letters of Mounsieur de Balzac (1654), III. 142. But the French shall be the freers of all the earth.
1670–98. Lassels, Voy. Italy, II. 76. It was erected to him in memory of his victory over the tyrant Maxentius, as to the freer of the City, & founder of publick quiet.
