单词 | abnegator |
释义 | abnegatorn. A person who abnegates, denies, or renounces something. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > reversal of or forsaking one's will or purpose > [noun] > recantation or retraction > person who recanter1545 unsayer1583 abnegator1605 renunciant1745 renunciator1800 1605 E. Sandys Relation State of Relig. sig. I4 v Fighters against the light, protectors of darkenesse, persecuters of marriage, and patrons of brothelles, abnegators and dispencers against the lawes of God. 1704 B. Jenks Second Cent. Medit. xxvi. 103 And so may those very Abnegators, Repent and Turn, (with Peter, who deny'd his Lord). 1713 C. Place Heretical Char. xiii. 292 To..make Men constant to the Death, and not fall away in Tmes of Persecution, and turn Traditors and Abnegators. 1834 T. P. Thompson Exercises (1842) III. 415 Habitual abnegators of the principles of public and private morality. 1860 Hall's Jrnl. Health 7 79 An abnegator of the Bible, the Sabbath-day, and the ‘religion of his Fathers’. 1959 World Politics 12 144 This latter feature might go some way to meet the moral objections of the nuclear abnegators mentioned above. 1998 Hispanic Outlook in Higher Educ. (Nexis) 19 Aug. s14 Wu splits us into three types: 1) the abnegators/pragmatists who deny themselves and act only in practical matters; [etc.]. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1605 |
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