abolisher

From abolish +‎ -er.

• (US) IPA^(key): /əˈbɑl.ɪʃ.ɚ/, /əˈbɑl.əʃ.ɚ/

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abolisher (plural abolishers)

1. Agent noun of abolish; one who abolishes. [From the 16^th century.]
   • 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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