ACCUSER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does accuser mean? 

• ACCUSER (noun)
  The noun ACCUSER has 1 sense:

1. someone who imputes guilt or blame

  Familiarity information: ACCUSER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ACCUSER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who imputes guilt or blame

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("accuser" is a kind of...):

controversialist; disputant; eristic (a person who disputes; who is good at or enjoys controversy)

Derivation:

accuse (bring an accusation against; level a charge against)

accuse (blame for, make a claim of wrongdoing or misbehavior against)

 Context examples 

His dark eyes glanced rapidly over the assembly, and finally settled with a grim and menacing twinkle upon the face of his accuser.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Our visitor’s face had turned ashen grey as he listened to the words of his accuser.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

For a moment he had staggered and nearly fallen, but the brandy brought a tinge of colour into his cheeks, and he sat staring with frightened eyes at his accuser.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

All crimes against the state, are punished here with the utmost severity; but, if the person accused makes his innocence plainly to appear upon his trial, the accuser is immediately put to an ignominious death; and out of his goods or lands the innocent person is quadruply recompensed for the loss of his time, for the danger he underwent, for the hardship of his imprisonment, and for all the charges he has been at in making his defence; or, if that fund be deficient, it is largely supplied by the crown.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

“That can I,” answered the accuser.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I told him, “that in the kingdom of Tribnia, by the natives called Langdon, where I had sojourned some time in my travels, the bulk of the people consist in a manner wholly of discoverers, witnesses, informers, accusers, prosecutors, evidences, swearers, together with their several subservient and subaltern instruments, all under the colours, the conduct, and the pay of ministers of state, and their deputies. The plots, in that kingdom, are usually the workmanship of those persons who desire to raise their own characters of profound politicians; to restore new vigour to a crazy administration; to stifle or divert general discontents; to fill their coffers with forfeitures; and raise, or sink the opinion of public credit, as either shall best answer their private advantage. It is first agreed and settled among them, what suspected persons shall be accused of a plot; then, effectual care is taken to secure all their letters and papers, and put the owners in chains. These papers are delivered to a set of artists, very dexterous in finding out the mysterious meanings of words, syllables, and letters: for instance, they can discover a close stool, to signify a privy council; a flock of geese, a senate; a lame dog, an invader; the plague, a standing army; a buzzard, a prime minister; the gout, a high priest; a gibbet, a secretary of state; a chamber pot, a committee of grandees; a sieve, a court lady; a broom, a revolution; a mouse-trap, an employment; a bottomless pit, a treasury; a sink, a court; a cap and bells, a favourite; a broken reed, a court of justice; an empty tun, a general; a running sore, the administration.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Bid the chancellor and the sub-chancellor lead in the brothers according to age, together with brother John, the accused, and brother Ambrose, the accuser.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)