Forms: see TROUBLE sb.: also 4 -ere, 5–6 -ar(e. [ME. a. OF. trobleor, F. troubleur (13th c.), tourbleur (15th c.), f. trobler, etc.: see TROUBLE v.] One who or that which troubles (in any sense); a disturber; an oppressor.

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1382.  Wyclif, Isa. xix. 20. They shul crien to the Lord fro the face of the trublere.

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c. 1440.  Promp. Parv., 497/1. Torbelare, or he þat makythe debate, turbator.

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1547–64.  Bauldwin, Mor. Philos. (Palfr.), 140. Conscience … is … an inward troubler or tormentor.

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1594.  Shaks., Rich. III., I. iii. 221. The troubler of the poore Worlds peace.

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1624.  Middleton, Game at Chess, I. i. Yon troubler of all Christian waters.

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1710.  Hume, Sacred Success. (1716), 108. That troubler of the Church.

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1767.  in S. C. & Amer. Gen. Gaz., 24 July, 2/2.

        Beneath the pressing turf the troubler’s laid;
While fern and brambles rise.—a junto shade!

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1869.  Trollope, He knew, etc., xxv. 195. That pernicious troubler of the peace of families.

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