surrenderer

English

Etymology

surrender +‎ -er

Noun

surrenderer (plural surrenderers)

1. one who surrenders
   • 1867, John Lothrop Motley, Project Gutenberg History of The Netherlands, 1555-1623, Complete‎^[1]:

     I will warrant him hanged and one or two of his fellows, but you must not tell your shirt of this yet;" and when he was congratulating the government on his having at length procured the execution of Captain Hemart, the surrenderer of Grave, he added, pithily, "and you shall hear that Mr. P. B. shall follow."

   • 2004 March 19, Justin Hayford, “Good Things in Small Spaces”, in Chicago Reader‎^[2]:

     A massive desk lamp shields him almost entirely from the client, who's left to contemplate a framed photograph of the professional surrenderer planting his flag atop a hill.