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[edit]Noun
[edit]abolisher (plural abolishers)
- Agent noun of abolish; one who abolishes. [From the 16th century.]
- 1548, Nicholas Udall, transl., The First Tome or Volume of the Paraphrase of Erasmus vpon the Newe Testamente[1], London: Edward Whitchurche, Luke 16:
- […] I am not come to bee an abolisher of the lawe.
- 1725, Henry Bourne, Antiquitates Vulgares: or, The Antiquities of the Common People[2], Newcastle, Preface, p. x:
- 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[3], New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, pages 7-8:
- Alastors, Austenites, A-test
Abolishers—even the straightest
Of issues looks pretty oblique
When a movement turns into a clique,
Translations
[edit]one who abolishes
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