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Grammar : Noun
Spell : foh-ment
Phonetic Transcription : foʊˈmɛnt



Definition of fomenter

Origin :
  • early 15c., "apply hot liquids," from Old French fomenter (13c.) "apply hot compress (to a wound)," from Late Latin fomentare, from Latin fomentum "warm application, poultice," contraction of *fovimentum, from fovere "to warm; cherish, encourage" (see fever). Extended sense of "stimulate, instigate" (1620s) was in the French. Related: Fomented; fomenting.
  • As in inciter : noun agitator
  • As in demagogue : noun agitating person
  • As in agitator : noun person who disturbs, causes trouble
Example sentences :
  • He was no fomenter of factions, but studious of the public tranquillity.
  • Extract from : « Biographia Scoticana (Scots Worthies) » by John Howie
  • It has not been the fomenter of disorder, for the National Guard has committed no excess.
  • Extract from : « History of the Commune of 1871 » by P. Lissagary
  • It is a fomenter of almost all the evil passions; of those particularly which do the least honor to the human heart.
  • Extract from : « A Journal of a Young Man of Massachusetts, 2nd ed. » by Benjamin Waterhouse
  • His partisans say that he saved Kansas, and regard Lane as a fomenter of trouble who accomplished nothing.
  • Extract from : « Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 15, Slice 6 » by Various

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