abandoner

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Noun

abandoner (plural abandoners)

1. One who abandons. [Late 16^th century.]
   • 1595, Francis Sabie, The Fissher-mans Tale of the Famous Actes, Life and Loue of Cassander a Grecian Knight, London,

     Sin-hating powers, reformers of all vice,

     Abandoners of euil and cruell actes,

     Cease to pursue with weapons of reuenge,

     Mine haynous and intollerable fact.

   • 1634, John Fletcher (playwright) and William Shakespeare, The Two Noble Kinsmen, London: John Waterson, Act V, Scene 1, p. 74,

     […] cold and constant Queene,

     Abandoner of Revells, mute contemplative,

   • 1990, David Foster Wallace, “The Empty Plenum: David Markson’s Wittgenstein’s Mistress” in Both Flesh and Not, New York: Little, Brown, 2012,

     […] Kate’s been left in the emotional lurch by all sorts of objectifying men, psychic abandoners who range from her husband […] to her final lover […]

Translations

• Portuguese: abandonador

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