Forms: 4 blasfemer(e, blasphemour, -femour, 5 blasfemare, 6– blasphemer. [a. OF. blasfemeor, -eur (AF. -our), in nom. blasphemère:—L. blasphēmātor-em.] One who blasphemes.
c. 1386. Chaucer, Sompn. T., 505. This false blasphemour that charged me To parte that wol nat departed be.
c. 1400. Apol. Loll., 27. Þus was Crist callid a synnar & blasfemer.
1535. Coverdale, 2 Macc. ix. 28. That murthurer and blasphemer of God.
1770. Burke, Pres. Discont., Wks. II. 298. A common slaughter of libellers and blasphemers.
1870. R. Anderson, Missions Amer. Board, III. xx. 348. The recent blasphemer cried out in agony.
