[f. as prec. + -ER1.] One who threatens.
a. 1541. Wyatt, Song of Iopas, 46. The starre of Saturne olde, A threat’ner of all liuing things with drought.
1595. Shaks., John, V. i. 49. Threaten the threatner, and out-face the brow Of bragging horror.
1630. R. Johnson’s Kingd. & Commw., A ij b. That Enemie and Threatner of our English Nation.
1748. Richardson, Clarissa (1810), III. ii. 10. Threateners … were seldom to be feared.
1867. Jean Ingelow, Story Doom, VII. 140. A feeble threatener with a foolish threat.
