Abaser
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /əˈbeɪs.ɚ/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Abaser is a noun meaning (rhetoric) One who, or that which, abases.
Meaning
(rhetoric) One who, or that which, abases.
Example Sentences
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.
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.
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.
Word Forms
- abasers
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include abasement, debaser, abater, degrader, deject, subduer.
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