abolisher
English
Etymology
Pronunciation
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Noun
abolisher (plural abolishers)
- Agent noun of abolish; one who abolishes. [From the 16th century.]
- 1548, Nicholas Udall (translator), The First Tome or Volume of the Paraphrase of Erasmus vpon the Newe Testamente, London: Edward Whitchurche, Luke 16,[1]
- […] I am not come to bee an abolisher of the lawe.
- 1725, Henry Bourne, Antiquitates Vulgares: or, The Antiquities of the Common People, Newcastle: for the author, Preface, p. x,[2]
- I would not be thought a Reviver of old Rites and Ceremonies to the Burdening of the People, nor an Abolisher of innocent Customs, which are their Pleasures and Recreations […]
- 1968, Kingsley Amis, “After Goliath” in A Look Round the Estate: Poems 1957-1967, New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, pp. 7-8,[3]
- Alastors, Austenites, A-test
- Abolishers—even the straightest
- Of issues looks pretty oblique
- When a movement turns into a clique,
- 1548, Nicholas Udall (translator), The First Tome or Volume of the Paraphrase of Erasmus vpon the Newe Testamente, London: Edward Whitchurche, Luke 16,[1]
Translations
one who abolishes
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