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ˈshortener [-er1.] One who or something which shortens (in various senses of the vb.).
1565J. Phillip Patient Grissell 715 (Malone Soc.) Oh dyrfull daye, oh haples hap, oh shortner of my yeares. a1636G. Williams Best Relig. viii. 183 Sin is an epitomizer or shortner of every thing. c1710Swift Inq. Behav. Queen's Last Ministry ii, The gout, which is not usually reckoned a shortener of life. 1878Spurgeon Treas. Dav. Ps. cix. 8. V. 183 Sin the great shortener of human life. |