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Deletery vs Deleter - What's the difference?

deletery | deleter |

As nouns the difference between deletery and deleter

is that deletery is (obsolete) that which destroys while deleter is agent noun of delete; one who deletes.

As an adjective deletery

is (obsolete) destructive, poisonous.

deletery

English

Noun

(deleteries)
  • (obsolete) That which destroys.
    • They [the Scriptures] are the only deletery of heresies. — Jeremy Taylor.

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) Destructive, poisonous.
  • * 1663 ,
  • *:Nor engine, nor device polemic, / Disease, nor doctor epidemic, / Tho' stored with deletery med'cines, / Which whosoever took is dead since, / E'er sent so vast a colony / To both the under worlds as he.

    • deleter

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Agent noun of delete; one who deletes.
    • English agent nouns