Also 6–7 -our; see also SUPPRESSER. [f. SUPPRESS + -OR. Late L. had suppressor.] One who or that which suppresses.

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1560.  in Maitl. Club Misc., III. 217. The Pape quhai is the verray Antichriste and suppressour of Godis glorie.

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1632.  Lithgow, Trav., IX. 388. He was no suppressour of the subiects.

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1682.  Sir T. Browne, Chr. Mor., 13. Humility and charity, the great suppressors of envy.

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1711.  E. Ward, Vulgus Brit., VIII. 91. And so from a Rude Mob became, The fierce Suppressors of the same.

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1868.  Freeman, Norm. Conq., II. viii. 194. Rudolf of Ivry … the savage suppressor of the great peasant revolt.

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