withdrawern.
/wɪðˈdrɔː(r)ə/, U.S. /wɪðˈdrɔər/, /wɪðˈdrɑər/, /wɪθˈdrɔər/, /wɪθˈdrɑər/ One who withdraws, in various senses of the verb; spec. in Scottish Church History, one who did not conform to the established church in the 17th century.
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society > armed hostility > warrior > defeated or conquered > [noun] > one who retreats
withdrawer1475
retirer1575
retreater1643
the mind > possession > loss > taking away > [noun] > withdrawal of something previously had > one who
withdrawer1580
society > faith > aspects of faith > nonconformity > [noun] > person
recusant1581
disagreer1605
unconformitant1605
nonconformist1618
non-conformer1622
nonconformitan1622
nonconformitantc1630
inconformist1633
dissenter1639
unconformist1640
fanatic1644
non-conformant1654
withdrawer1677
non-consenter1680
non-con1681
meeting-house man1711
shit-sack1769
dissident1790
meetinger1802
chapel-goer1842
speckle-belly1874
1475 Bk. Noblesse (Roxb.) 46 Sethe that none suche were never sene withdrawers or fleers frome batailes.
1580 M. Outred tr. M. Cope Godly & Learned Expos. Prouerbes Solomon (xi. 26) f. 192v And so he [sc. Ioseph] was not a withdrawer of the corne, but a seller.
1606 in J. Forbes Cert. Rec. Kirk (Wodrow Soc.) 519 Contempners of his Majesties lawes, withdrawers and corrupters of his Majestie's subjects hearts from his obedience.
1638 R. Baillie Let. 5 Apr. (1841) I. 63 They are..withdrawers of their hands.
1677 Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1912) 3rd Ser. V. 121 Constant withdrawers and keepers of conventicles.
1784 J. Brown Compend. Hist. Brit. Churches II. 264 Parliament..enacted [in 1663] That..all with-drawers from the conform incumbents of their own parish, be punished.
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