different between abaser vs abuser

English

Etymology

abase +? -er

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /??be?s.?/

Noun

abaser (plural abasers)

1. One who, or that which, abases. [Late 16^th century.]
   • 1587, John Bridges, A Defence of the Gouernment Established in the Church of Englande for Ecclesiasticall Matters, London: Thomas Chard, Book 3, p. 297,^[1]

     Therefore he that shall be disobedient to [the Deacons], shall be altogither without God, and wicked, and contemning Christe, and an abaser of his ordinance.

   • 1887, E. H. Whinfield (translator), Masnavi I Ma’navi: The Spiritual Couplets of Maulána Jalálu-’d-Dín Muhammad i Rúmi, London: Trübner, Book 6, Story 6, p. 300,^[2]

     God is an Abaser and an Exalter;

     Without these two processes nothing comes into being.

   • 1905, Morrison I. Swift, Human Submission, Philadelphia: The Liberty Press, Chapter 5, p. 37,^[3]

     He has committed the irretrievable character fault of suffering himself to be wrenched out of manhood into slavehood, whereafter he conforms no longer to the high free true laws of his soul but moulds his being to his false state and to the compelling will of abasers.

References

Anagrams

• Raabes, abears, abrase

English

Etymology

From abuse +? -er.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??bju?.z?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /??bju.z?/

• Rhymes: -u?z?(?)

Noun

abuser (plural abusers)

1. One who abuses someone or something. [First attested around 1350 to 1470.]
2. (obsolete) One who uses in an illegal or wrongful use. [Attested from the mid 17^th century until the mid 18^th century.]

Translations

References

Anagrams

• Sauber, Subera, bursae, bursæ

French

Etymology

From abus +? -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.by.ze/

Verb

abuser

1. to mislead
2. (followed by the preposition de) to take advantage of somebody (especially sexually)
3. to abuse (use improperly)
4. (intransitive, slang) to go too far

   Synonym: exagérer

Conjugation

Derived terms

Further reading

• “abuser” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Norman

Alternative forms

• abûther (Saint Ouen)

Pronunciation

• (Jersey) IPA^(key): /aby?ze/

Etymology

From Latin ab?sus (“consumed, wasted, misused”) +? -er.

Verb

abuser

1. (Jersey) to abuse

References

• Spence, N.C.W. (1960). Glossary of Jersey-French. Oxford: Blackwell. p. 40.