different between abjurer vs abjuror

English

Alternative forms

• abjuror

Etymology

abjure +? -er

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /æb?d????.?/

Noun

abjurer (plural abjurers)

1. One who abjures. [From 16th century]
   • 1583, John Foxe, Actes and Monuments, London: John Daye, 4th edition, Volume 2, Book 7,^[1]

     To thys Iames Morden with other moe abiurers, it was enioyned by Bishoppe Smith, for seuen yeares, to visite the church of Lincolne twise a yeare from Amersham.

   • 1655, William Prynne, A New Discovery of Free-State Tyranny, London: for the author, p. 25,^[2]

     […] to force him by tedious uncomfortable imprisonments, and extreame penury to turn a practicall Apostate and perjured abjurer of all his former Orthodox loyall Principles […]

Translations

French

Etymology

ab- +? jurer, borrowed from Latin abi?r?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ab.?y.?e/

Verb

abjurer

1. (transitive, intransitive, very formal) To renounce or abandon solemnly; to abjure.
2. (transitive, intransitive, religion) To formally renounce one's religious belief; to apostatise.
3. (obsolete) To reject by oath someone's authority.

Conjugation

Further reading

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

English

Noun

abjuror (plural abjurors)

1. Alternative form of abjurer