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English
Etymology
From abolish + -er.
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /əˈbɑl.ɪʃ.ɚ/, /əˈbɑl.əʃ.ɚ/
Noun
abolisher (plural abolishers)
- Agent noun of abolish; one who abolishes.
1548, Nicholas Udall, transl., The First Tome or Volume of the Paraphrase of Erasmus vpon the Newe Testamente, 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, 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, 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,
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