abjurern.

1583 J. Foxe Actes & Monuments (ed. 4) II. 823/2 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.

1620 T. Walkington Rabboni 23 She stood still, and stood to it: not like Peter, a flincher, a reuolter, an abiurer of Christ, for he cowardly went out and wept.

1658 R. Brathwait Honest Ghost 100 Nights deere-Minion, Lights abjurer, Souls-eclipser, sinnes-securer.

1685 G. Bates & T. Skinner Civil Wars (1688) iii. 38 The Abjurors having no more opportunity of doing mischief in the Parliament-house, kept Cabals and secret Conferences.

1710 J. St. Leger Manager's Pro & Con 77 Some..Remedy..against Applicationers and Occasional Abjurors.

1770 D. Y. tr. G.-F. P. de Saint-Foix Hist. Paris 92 in Transl. from French To treat as renegadoes and abjurers of the doctrine of Jesus Christ, all templars who should retract the confessions they had made under the influence of the torture.

1812 R. Southey in Q. Rev. Dec. 538 This abjurer of sycophancy to sovereigns,—all these things he surveys, without one hint of disapprobation.

1854 Gentleman's Mag. Apr. 344/2 Lists of abjurors with their receipts were sent to the King.

1876 Ladies' Repository May 459/2 This champion is no Protestant himself,—he is simply an abjurer of Catholicism from what he practically knows and sees of it.

1938 H. M. Smith Pre-Reformation Eng. ii. 71 It was explained that abjurers might choose between foreign exile and living permanently in the sanctuary.

1962 Speculum 37 615 If no ship was immediately available, the abjuror had to wade out into the sea as far as he could as evidence of good faith.

1995 Guardian (Nexis) 6 Nov. 13 Rabin was no abjurer of force and no sentimentalist.