How to pronounce“assailant”in English
reports are correct that there was some kind of makeshift weapon used, a metal pole with a spike on the end, how did that get into the hands of the alleged
assailant? Were they being monitored at the time?
And so on. So, all of those questions will have to be looked at. It is a concern that Frankland has been the scene of two other very, very serious
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Definitions of “assailant”
Someone who attacks or assails another violently, or criminally.
“I’ll put myself in poor and mean attire, And with a kind of umber smirch my face; The like do you; so shall we pass along, And never stir assailants.”
A hostile critic or opponent.
“1782, Frances Burney, Cecilia, London: T. Payne and Son and T. Cadell, Volume 5, Book 9, Chapter 3, p. 41, […] the assailants of the quill have their honour as much at heart as the assailants of the sword.”
Assailing; attacking.
“But he though blind of sight, / Despis'd, and thought extinguish'd quite, / With inward eyes illuminated, / His fiery virtue roused / From under ashes into sudden flame, / And as an evening dragon came, / Assailant on the perched roosts / And nests in order ranged / Of tame villatic fowl, but as an eagle / His cloudless thunder bolted on their heads.”
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