abjurer

• abjuror

From abjure +‎ -er.

• (US) IPA^(key): /æbˈd͡ʒʊɹ.ɚ/

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abjurer (plural abjurers)

1. One who abjures. [From 16th century]
   • 1583, John Foxe, Actes and Monuments‎^[1], 4th edition, London: John Daye, Volume 2, Book 7:

     To thys Iames Morden with other moe abiurers, it was enioyned by Bishoppe Smith, for seuen yeares, to visite the church of Lincolne twise a yeare from Amersham.

   • 1655, William Prynne, A New Discovery of Free-State Tyranny‎^[2], London: for the author, page 25:

     […] to force him by tedious uncomfortable imprisonments, and extreame penury to turn a practicall Apostate and perjured abjurer of all his former Orthodox loyall Principles […]

   • 1777, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The School for Scandal, III.iii:

     [N]o man can pretend to be a Believer in Love, who is an abjurer of wine—'tis the Test by which a Lover knows his own Heart—

From Middle French abiurer, abjurer, from Old French abjurer (“to reject or renounce (something) on oath”), borrowed from Latin abiūrāre, the present active infinitive of abiūrō (“to deny on oath, recant, renounce, repudiate, abjure”).

• IPA^(key): /ab.ʒy.ʁe/

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abjurer

1. (transitive, intransitive, very formal) to renounce or abandon solemnly; to abjure
2. (transitive, intransitive, religion) to formally renounce one's religious belief; to apostatise
3. (obsolete) to reject by oath someone's authority

• “abjurer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.