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weakener|ˈwiːk(ə)nə(r)|
Also 6–8 weakner.
[f. weaken v. + -er1.]
One who or something which weakens.
1589L. Andrewes Serm., Lent i. (1629) 268 If this Ego, be not Saul, but David. David, which giveth strength vnto the Pillers; and not Saul, an empairer or weakner of them. 1694[S. Bethel] Provid. God (ed. 2) 94 There being no such Traitors to the Strength of a Land, Underminers and Weakners thereof, as are unreformed Provocations. a1716South Serm. (1727) VI. xi. 397 Fastings and Mortifications..which..rightly managed, are..great weakners of Sin. 1817Coleridge Biog. Lit. (1907) I. iii. 35 Averrhoes' catalogue of Anti-Mnemonics, or weakeners of the memory. 1870Emerson Soc. & Sol. viii. (1883) 161 The crowds and centuries of books are only..echoes and weakeners of these few great voices of Time. |