abolisherとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (米国発音) IPA^(key): /əˈbɑl.ɪʃ.ɚ/, /əˈbɑl.əʃ.ɚ/

名詞

abolisher (複数形 abolishers)

1. Agent noun of abolish; one who abolishes. [From the 16^th century.]
   • 1548, Nicholas Udall (translator), The First Tome or Volume of the Paraphrase of Erasmus vpon the Newe Testamente, London: Edward Whitchurche, Luke 16,^[1]

     […] I am not come to bee an abolisher of the lawe.

   • 1725, Henry Bourne, Antiquitates Vulgares: or, The Antiquities of the Common People, Newcastle: for the author, Preface, p. x,^[2]

     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, pp. 7-8,^[3]

     Alastors, Austenites, A-test

     Abolishers—even the straightest

     Of issues looks pretty oblique

     When a movement turns into a clique,