单词 | abandoner |
释义 | abandonern. A person, creature, etc., that abandons or forsakes something. Frequently followed by of. ΚΠ 1562 tr. Duc de Guise et al. Requestes vnto Frenche Kinge sig. Aiiv Forsakers & abandoners [Fr. déserteurs] of the honour of God. a1625 W. Shakespeare & J. Fletcher Two Noble Kinsmen (1634) v. iii. 2 Oh sacred, shadowie, cold and constant Queene, Abandoner of Revells, mute contemplative. 1664 H. More Apol. in Modest Enq. Myst. Iniquity 558 Their Reverend Predecessours, who were so judicious and zealous Abandoners of the Church of Rome. 1708 Vespers 121 Bright King of Martyrs..Who leadest to celestial springs Th' Abandoners of earthly things. 1722 O. Dykes Royal Marriage 333 An utter Enemy to all strange Embraces, and Abandoner of Foreign Views. 1813 Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 20 Feb. 238 The American government could not avoid making it [sc. a demand], without exposing itself to the detestation of the people, as a base abandoner of their rights. 1862 J. G. Wood Illustr. Nat. Hist. (new ed.) II. 572 As a heartless mother, an abandoner of its offspring, and an occupier of other homes it has been subjected to general reprobation. 1912 Laws State of N.Y. II. Index 132 Abandoners of wives and children. 1950 E. Bowen Coll. Impressions i. 27 The ascetic, the abandoner of the world for one thing, on trial, his own judge. 2001 Kenyon Rev. 23 167 The strained margin between the abandoned and the abandoner parallels Glück's identification with Penelope in Meadowlands. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < |
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