guiler
English
Etymology
From Middle English giler, gylur, gylour, gilour, from Old French guilëor, equivalent to guile + -er.
Noun
guiler (plural guilers)
- (obsolete) A deceiver.
- c. 1385, William Langland, Piers Plowman, section II:
- And þow hast gyuen hire to a gyloure · now god gyf þe sorwe.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- But he was wary wise in all his way,
And well perceived his deceitful Neight ,
Ne suffered Luft his Safety to betray ;
So goodly did beguile the Guiler of the Prey
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