losenger

English

Etymology

Old French losengier, losengeor, from losengier (“to deceive, flatter”), losenge (“flattery”), flattery, Occitan lauzenga, from Latin laus praise. Compare lozenge.

Noun

losenger (plural losengers)

  1. (obsolete) A flatterer; a deceiver; a cozener.
    • Geoffrey Chaucer
      Alas! ye lordes, many a false flatour Is in your court, and many a lozengeour.
    • Holinshed
      To a fair pair of gallows, there to end their lives with shame, as a number of such other losengers had done.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for losenger in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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