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Etymology

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From abolish +‎ -er.

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  • (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 16th century.]
    • 1548, Nicholas Udall, transl., The First Tome or Volume of the Paraphrase of Erasmus vpon the Newe Testamente[1], 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[2], 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[3], 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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