abnegator
Pronunciation
  • (America) IPA: /ˈæb.nɪˌɡeɪ.tɚ/, /ˈæb.niˌɡeɪ.tɚ/
Noun

abnegator (plural abnegators)

  1. (rare) One who abnegates, denies, or rejects. [From early 17th century.]
    • 1605, Edwin Sandys (died 1629), 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, John Bull's Other Island, London: Constable, “Preface for Politicians,” p. 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.



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