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Definition of Apprehender

1. Noun. A person who knows or apprehends.

2. Noun. A person who seizes or arrests (especially a person who seizes or arrests in the name of justice).

Definition of Apprehender

1. n. One who apprehends.

Definition of Apprehender

1. Noun. Agent noun of apprehend; one who apprehends. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Apprehender

appreciates appreciating appreciatingly appreciation appreciations appreciative appreciatively appreciativeness appreciator appreciatorily

appreciators appreciatory apprecihate apprehend apprehended apprehender (current term) apprehenders apprehending apprehends apprehensibility

apprehensible apprehensibly apprehension apprehensions apprehensive apprehensively apprehensiveness apprentice apprentice(a) apprenticeage

Literary usage of Apprehender

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Die erste Theilung Polens by Adolf Beer (1873)
"On seroit sur de n'avoir ni l'un ni l'autre à apprehender, si l'on etoit assuré du Roi de Prusse. On paroit être en droit de pouvoir se promettre des ..."

2. A Grammar of the French Tongue: With a Preface, Containing an Essay on the by Louis Chambaud, A. J. Des Carrieres (1846)
"... to fear; apprehender, to apprehend; A avoir peur, to be afraid: when they are not used in the infinitive: as, A mains que vous ne le vouliez ainsi; ..."

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