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单词 rescinder
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rescindern.

Brit. /rᵻˈsɪndə/, U.S. /rəˈsɪndər/, /riˈsɪndər/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: rescind v., -er suffix1.
Etymology: < rescind v. + -er suffix1.
1. A person who or thing which cancels, revokes, or annuls something.
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the mind > mental capacity > memory > effacement, obliteration > cancellation, revocation > [noun] > one who cancels, annuls, etc.
canceller1611
nuller1662
rescinder1664
annuller1815
1664 in S. Rutherford Joshua Redivivus Pref. sig. B6v That he would not onely repeal that Act, but that he would rescinde the rescinders.
1687 A. Shields Hind let Loose vi. 99 That unhappy Restauration of the Rescinder of the Reformation.
1778 Minutes Evid. Sel. Comm. Kilkenny Election 35 They were called rescinders for endeavouring to vacate an order for making a lease to Sir John Blundell.
1812 Parl. Deb. 1st Ser. VI. anno 1806 935 The right hon. the rescinder of the former vote of this house.
1884 Dart & Midland Figaro 20 June 1/1 The would-be rescinders can be shut up in ten minutes by the clôture, if the majority choose to enforce it.
1921 Columbia Law Rev. 21 707 Restitution has been excused if rendered impossible by the act of another, without fault of the rescinder.
1991 Lewiston (Idaho) Morning Tribune (Nexis) 24 Jan. 1 a The House-passed pay raise rescinder is still available for a Senate vote.
2008 El Paso (Texas) Times (Nexis) 23 May Speaking for the rescinders, Eastridge/Mid-Valley's Steve Ortega said, ‘Let's be honest. If you want to take calls during meetings, well, that's up to you.’
2. U.S. History. Frequently with capital initial. Each of the seventeen members of the legislature of Massachusetts who voted in 1768 to rescind the resolution to issue a call to the other colonies for a convention to oppose taxation.
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1768 in Publ. Col. Soc. Mass. (1924) 25 49 On brave Rescinders! to yon yawning cell, Seventeen such miscreants, sure will startle Hell.
1784 I. Backus Church Hist. New-Eng. II. xiv. 261 And the artful representative referred to was, for being one of the seventeen rescinders, set up as Chief Judge of their County Court.
1818 Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. 2nd Ser. VII. 153 The third was the late Col. Edson, son of the last, and one of the seventeen Rescinders.
1854 G. Bancroft Hist. Amer. Revol. III. xvii. 314 Of the ninety-two who voted not to rescind, eighty-one..were re-elected; of the seventeen rescinders, only five.
1873 S. A. Drake Old Landmarks & Hist. Personages Boston 118 Of his engravings of Dr. Mayhew, and the Rescinders, he might have said with Beau Brummel, ‘Those are my failures.’
1931 C. Andrews Colonial Background Amer. Rev. (rev. ed.) iii. 150 These men expressed their resentment against stamp distributors, non-subscribers, revolters, rescinders, lukewarm colonists, British sympathizers, and British officials in riots, mob actions, and the destruction of property.
1993 J. S. Leamon Revol. Downeast iii. 46 Through the summer of 1768, patriot newspapers poured a constant stream of vituperation upon the rescinders to discredit them with their constituents.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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