disallowern.
/ˌdɪsəˈlaʊə/, U.S. /ˌdɪsəˈlaʊər/ A person who disallows something (in various senses of disallow v.); (in later use) esp. a person who prohibits or refuses to sanction something.
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1622 C. Sibthorp Friendly Advt. Pretended Catholickes iii. 404 As if our religion, were a religion allowing licentiousnesse, a condemner and disallower of all good works.
1672 H. More Brief Reply 74 Himself was an Opposer and disallower of that fond and Idolatrous Superstition.
1683 tr. Eusebius Hist. Church iv. xvii. 61 For, he that denies himself to be a Christian, declines the confession of that Religion..because he is a disallower as well as a denier of it.
1784 W. Fry New Vocab. at Monogamy Having but one wife; hence monogamist, a disallower of second marriages.
1885 Deb. House of Commons (Canada) 30 Jan. 18/2 So the infallible disallowers who disallowed this measure.., turned out to be all wrong.
1955 Public Admin. Rev. 15 123/1 They have a nostalgia to originate more bills rather than be cast in the role of..disallower of administrative proposals.
1998 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 11 June 66/1 The disallowed become the elite disallowers.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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