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noun a person who yields or surrenders
originFrom Middle English yeldere, ȝelder, ȝeldere, continuing (with change of suffix) Old English ġylda, ġilda (“one who pays, yielder”), from Proto-West Germanic *geldō (“payer”). Equivalent to yield + -er.
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