[f. as prec. + -ER1; cf. Fr. complimenteur.] One who compliments; a payer of compliments.
[1620–80. see COMPLEMENTER.
1666. Orrery, State Lett. (1743), II. 63. I am the worst complimenter in the world.]
1748. Richardson, Clarissa (1811), III. lxi. 338. My complimenters have told me so. Ibid. (1754), Grandison, I. iii. 13. I both despise and fear a very high complimenter.
1876. [see prec.].
1878. Browning, Poets Croisic, 30. Being to compliment the Duke designed And bring the complimenter credit.
