arraigner

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English

Etymology

From arraign +‎ -er.

Noun

arraigner (plural arraigners)

  1. (law) One who arraigns.
    • 1809, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Friend:
      This having been premised, I replied to the assertion above stated, by asserting the direct contrary; namely, that were a similar case conceived between man and man, the severest arraigners of the measure would, on their grounds, find nothing to blame in it.

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