Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who abjures or forswears.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who abjures.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a person who abjures
Etymologies
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abjure + -er
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Examples
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And then, what man can pretend to be a believer in love, who is an abjurer of wine?
Act Third. Scene III 1909
oroboros commented on the word abjurer
ROT13 is a simple way to encipher a message: Just advance each of its letters 13 positions forward in the alphabet. Thus ABC becomes NOP, FUR becomes SHE, and EBBS becomes ROOF.
Curiously, ABJURER and NOWHERE … become each other.
--Thanks to Futility Closet
July 28, 2008