abnegator

English

Etymology

From Late Latin abnegator, from abnegatus. Equivalent to abnegate +‎ -or.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈæb.nɪˌɡeɪ.tɚ/, /ˈæb.niˌɡeɪ.tɚ/

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Noun

abnegator (plural abnegators)

1. (rare) One who abnegates, denies, or rejects. [From early 17^th century.]
   • 1605, Edwin Sandys, A Relation of the State of Religion‎^[1], London: Simon Waterson:

     On the other side, representing a serpentine generation wholy, made of fraud, policies, and practises, men lovers of the world, and haters of truth and godlinesse, fighters against the light, protectors of darkenesse, persecuters of marriage, and patrons of brothelles, abnegators and dispencers against the lawes of God […]

   • 1914, George Bernard Shaw, “Preface for Politicians”, in John Bull’s Other Island‎^[2], London: Constable, page xix:

     The Catholic is theoretically a Collectivist, a self-abnegator, a Tory, a Conservative, a supporter of Church and State one and undivisible, an obeyer.

Translations

Translations

• Dutch: verloochenaar m, verwerper m

Latin

Etymology

From abnegō (“refuse, deny, decline”) +‎ -tor.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ab.neˈɡaː.tor/, [äbnɛˈɡäːt̪ɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ab.neˈɡa.tor/, [äbneˈɡäːt̪or]

Noun

abnegātor m (genitive abnegātōris); third declension

1. a denier

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	abnegātor	abnegātōrēs
genitive	abnegātōris	abnegātōrum
dative	abnegātōrī	abnegātōribus
accusative	abnegātōrem	abnegātōrēs
ablative	abnegātōre	abnegātōribus
vocative	abnegātor	abnegātōrēs

Related terms

• abnegātiō
• abnegātīvus
• abnegātus
• abnegō

Descendants

• → English: abnegator

References

• “abnegator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• abnegator in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[3], pre-publication website, 2005-2016