[f. SWAY v. + -ER1.] One who or that which sways, wields, or rules.
1598. Florio, Dominatore, a ruler, a gouernor, a lord, a swayer.
1679. J. Brown, Life of Faith (1824), II. xvii. 325. He is the happiest swayer of a sceptre that ever was.
1691. Wood, Ath. Oxon., II. 173. Pym, Hamden, and Strode were esteemed Parliament-drivers, or Swayers of all the Parliaments wherein they sat.
1832. Examiner, 773/2. Eloquence and truth united are greater swayers of opinion than either wealth, wigs, or woolsacks.
1853. Kingsley, Misc. (1860), I. 300. To talk loud about the poet’s divine mission, as the prophet of mankind, the swayer of the universe, and so forth.
