abjurer

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US/æbˈd͡ʒʊɹ.ɚ/

noun

One who abjures.

First used 16th centuryScrabble 16

Meanings

nounabjurer (plural abjurers)

plural abjurers · alternative abjuror

  1. One who abjures.First known use 16th century

    [N]o man can pretend to be a Believer in Love, who is an abjurer of wine—'tis the Test by which a Lover knows his own Heart—

    1777, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The School for Scandal, III.iii
    2 more examples

    To thys Iames Morden with other moe abiurers, it was enioyned by Bishoppe Smith, for seuen yeares, to visite the church of Lincolne twise a yeare from Amersham.

    1583, John Foxe, Actes and Monuments, 4th edition, London: John Daye, Volume 2, Book 7

    […] to force him by tedious uncomfortable imprisonments, and extreame penury to turn a practicall Apostate and perjured abjurer of all his former Orthodox loyall Principles […]

    1655, William Prynne, A New Discovery of Free-State Tyranny, London: for the author, page 25

Origin

Translations

Dutch afzweerder, verzaker
  • afzweerderone who abjures
  • verzakerone who abjures
  • herroeperone who abjures
Portuguese abjurador
  • abjuradorone who abjures
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