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abjurer

noun
/æbˈd͡ʒʊɹ.ɚ/US

Etymology

From abjure + -er.

  1. derived from *h₂yew-✻ — “(adjective) right; straight; upright; (noun) justice; law; right”
  2. derived from abiūrāre
  3. derived from abjurer — “to reject or renounce (something) on oath”
  4. derived from abiurer
  5. derived from abjurer
  6. inherited from abjuren — “to give up (something); to recant or renounce (something) under oath”
  7. suffixed as abjurer — “abjure + er”

Definitions

  1. One who abjures.

    • To thys Iames Morden with other moe abiurers, it was enioyned by Bishoppe Smith, for seuen yeares, to visite the church of Lincolne twise a yeare from Amersham.
    • […] to force him by tedious uncomfortable imprisonments, and extreame penury to turn a practicall Apostate and perjured abjurer of all his former Orthodox loyall Principles […]
    • [N]o man can pretend to be a Believer in Love, who is an abjurer of wine—'tis the Test by which a Lover knows his own Heart—

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