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Abaser means (rhetoric) One who, or that which, abases..
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/əˈbeɪs.ɚ/ · noun
(rhetoric) One who, or that which, abases..
1887, E. H. Whinfield (translator), Masnavi I Ma’navi: The Spiritual Couplets of Maulána Jalálu-’d-Dín Muhammad i Rúmi, London: Trübner, Book 6, Story 6, p. 300, God is an Abaser and an Exalter; Without these two processes nothing comes into being.
Therefore he that shall be disobedient to [the Deacons], shall be altogither without God, and wicked, and contemning Christe, and an abaser of his ordinance.
He has committed the irretrievable character fault of suffering himself to be wrenched out of manhood into slavehood, whereafter he conforms no longer to the high free true laws of his soul but moulds his being to his false state and to the compelling will of abasers.
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Abaser means (rhetoric) One who, or that which, abases..
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1887, E. H. Whinfield (translator), Masnavi I Ma’navi: The Spiritual Couplets of Maulána Jalálu-’d-Dín Muhammad i Rúmi, London: Trübner, Book 6, Story 6, p. 300, God is an Abaser and an Exalter; Without these two processes nothing comes into being.
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