SUBORNER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does suborner mean? 

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

1. someone who pays (or otherwise incites) you to commit a wrongful act

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SUBORNER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who pays (or otherwise incites) you to commit a wrongful act

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

briber; suborner

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

criminal; crook; felon; malefactor; outlaw (someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime)

Derivation:

suborn (incite to commit a crime or an evil deed)

 Context examples 

I am not in the least provoked at the sight of a lawyer, a pickpocket, a colonel, a fool, a lord, a gamester, a politician, a whoremonger, a physician, an evidence, a suborner, an attorney, a traitor, or the like; this is all according to the due course of things: but when I behold a lump of deformity and diseases, both in body and mind, smitten with pride, it immediately breaks all the measures of my patience; neither shall I be ever able to comprehend how such an animal, and such a vice, could tally together.

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