abnegator

From Late Latin abnegator, from abnegatus. Equivalent to abnegate +‎ -or.

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈæb.nɪˌɡeɪ.tɚ/, /ˈæb.niˌɡeɪ.tɚ/

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abnegator (plural abnegators)

1. (rare) One who abnegates, denies, or rejects. [From early 17^th century.]
   • 1605, Edwin Sandys, A Relation of the State of Religion‎, London: Simon Waterson:

     On the other side, representing a serpentine generation wholy, made of fraud, policies, and practises, men lovers of the world, and haters of truth and godlinesse, fighters against the light, protectors of darkenesse, persecuters of marriage, and patrons of brothelles, abnegators and dispencers against the lawes of God […]

   • 1914, George Bernard Shaw, “Preface for Politicians”, in John Bull’s Other Island‎, London: Constable, page xix:

     The Catholic is theoretically a Collectivist, a self-abnegator, a Tory, a Conservative, a supporter of Church and State one and undivisible, an obeyer.

From abnegō (“refuse, deny, decline”) +‎ -tor.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ab.neˈɡaː.tor/, [äbnɛˈɡäːt̪ɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ab.neˈɡa.tor/, [äbneˈɡäːt̪or]

abnegātor m (genitive abnegātōris); third declension

1. a denier

Third-declension noun.

• abnegātiō
• abnegātīvus
• abnegātus
• abnegō

• → English: abnegator

• “abnegator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• abnegator in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016