abandoner
nounUS /əˈbændənɚ/ · UK /əˈbændənə/
Etymology From abandon + -er.
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One who abandons.
- Sin-hating powers, reformers of all vice, Abandoners of euil and cruell actes, Cease to pursue with weapons of reuenge, Mine haynous and intollerable fact.1595, Francis Sabie, The Fissher-mans Tale of the Famous Actes, Life and Loue of Cassander a Grecian Knight, London:
- […] cold and constant Queene, Abandoner of Revells, mute contemplative,1613–1614 (date written), John Fletcher, William Shak[e]speare, The Two Noble Kinsmen: […], London: […] Tho[mas] Cotes, for Iohn Waterson; […], published 1634, →OCLC, Act V, scene v, page 1:
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- […] Kate’s been left in the emotional lurch by all sorts of objectifying men, psychic abandoners who range from her husband […] to her final lover […]1990, David Foster Wallace, “The Empty Plenum: David Markson’s Wittgenstein’s Mistress”, in Both Flesh and Not, New York: Little, Brown, published 2012: