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English
Etymology
From Late Latin abnegator, from abnegatus. Equivalent to abnegate + -or.
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈæb.nɪˌɡeɪ.tɚ/, /ˈæb.niˌɡeɪ.tɚ/
Noun
abnegator (plural abnegators)
- (rare) One who abnegates, denies, or rejects.
1605, Edwin Sandys, A Relation of the State of Religion, 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, 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
Latin
Etymology
From abnegō (“refuse, deny, decline”) + -tor.
Pronunciation
Noun
abnegātor m (genitive abnegātōris); third declension
- a denier
Declension
Third-declension noun.
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Descendants
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, pre-publication website, 2005-2016