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abaser|əˈbeɪsə(r)| [f. abase v. + -er1.] 1. He who, or that which, abases.
1650J. Weekes Truth's Confl. iii. 76 Yours will be found the great exaltress of free-will, and the great abaser of free-grace. 1656J. Trapp Expos. Rom. iv. 16 Paul was a great advancer of the grace of God, and abaser of man. †2. Rhet. The figure Tapinosis; depreciatory phraseology. Obs.
1589Puttenham Eng. Poesie 266 (1869) These and such other base wordes do greatly disgrace the thing, and the speaker or writer: the Greekes call it Tapinosis, we the Abaser. |