defenser

Compare French défenseur, Latin defensor. Compare defensor.

defenser (plural defensers)

1. Obsolete form of defender.
   • 1563 March 30 (Gregorian calendar), John Foxe, Actes and Monuments of These Latter and Perillous Dayes, […], London: […] Iohn Day, […], →OCLC:

     if I may know any of their fautors , comforters , counsellors or defensers

“defenser”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• enserfed, fern seed, fernseed, seed fern

dēfēnser

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of dēfēnsō