Meanings of fomenter in English

As a fomenter of violence for political gain, Thackeray was a pioneer.

This time the fomenter of discord was a busy Scotchman.

There was a great fomenter of seditions in me, a great stirrer up of rebellion.

The periodical Press-which was at once the product and the fomenter of the liberal aspirations-hailedthe raising of the question with boundless enthusiasm.

A champion of the lazy and incompetent, an agitator, a fomenter of class-prejudice, an enemy of his own friends, and of his brother's business associates!

Against these fomenters of mischief all the Courts were at one.

They were the real fomenters of the demonstration, and the gentlemen, not the people, its leaders.

It is an insubordination, whereof foul breaths, licentious imaginations, and undisciplined tongues, are the inciters and fomenters.

However, all concurred in the necessity of ridding France, upon the most plausible pretexts, of the fomenters of its ruin.

They very properly reasoned that if Dr. Ryerson's views prevailed, their occupation as agitators and fomenters of discontent would be gone.

The dissenting clergy are, as my husband says was the case in England before the great civil war, the fomenters of this discontent.

I am sorry to say, that they are fomenters of discord, disturbers of the public mind, and captious disputants about prerogatives and vested rights.