Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who or that which abolishes.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who abolishes.

Etymologies

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abolish +‎ -er

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Examples

  • He was the abolisher of Popish traditions about Priests marriages: his owne marriage being solemnized at Schalholt.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • He was the abolisher of Popish traditions about Priests marriages: his owne marriage being solemnized at Schalholt.

    A briefe commentarie of Island, by Arngrimus Ionas 2003

  • When the twice-born secretary of the interior drops to his knees on the office carpet to begin his official day with his zealot's orisons he does not pray to God the builder, the shepherd, or the tender of the vines; he is communicating with God the abolisher, God the swinger of scythes.

    Know Thy President Hoffman, Nicholas von 1981

  • Well might they have anticipated, that Justice and Humanity, now starting forth with fresh vigor, would, in their march, sweep away the whole system; more especially, as freedom of speech and of the press -- the legitimate abolisher not only of the acknowledged vice of slavery, but of every other that time should reveal in our institutions or practices -- had been fully secured to the people.

    The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus American Anti-Slavery Society

  • He was the real abolisher of serfdom in Russia, as history will yet prove.

    Memoirs Charles Godfrey Leland 1863

  • Christ is alone the "abolisher of death," and the "giver of life;" but notwithstanding this, "Roll ye away the stone!"

    Memories of Bethany 1856

  • He was the abolisher of Popish traditions about Priests marriages: his owne marriage being solemnized at Schalholt.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 01 Richard Hakluyt 1584

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