different between ravager vs abolisher

English

Etymology

ravage +? -er

Noun

ravager (plural ravagers)

1. One who ravages.

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Anagrams

• Vergara

French

Etymology

From noun use of earlier ravage (“act of laying waste”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a.va.?e/

Verb

ravager

1. to ravage, to ruin

Conjugation

This is a regular -er verb, but the stem is written ravage- before endings that begin with -a- or -o- (to indicate that the -g- is a “soft” /?/ and not a “hard” /?/). This spelling-change occurs in all verbs in -ger, such as neiger and manger.

Related terms

• ravage
• ravageur

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• gravera

English

Etymology

From abolish +? -er.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /??b?l.??.?/, /??b?l.??.?/

Noun

abolisher (plural abolishers)

1. Agent noun of abolish; one who abolishes. [From the 16^th century.]
   • 1548, Nicholas Udall (translator), The First Tome or Volume of the Paraphrase of Erasmus vpon the Newe Testamente, London: Edward Whitchurche, Luke 16,^[1]

     […] I am not come to bee an abolisher of the lawe.

   • 1725, Henry Bourne, Antiquitates Vulgares: or, The Antiquities of the Common People, Newcastle: for the author, Preface, p. x,^[2]

     I would not be thought a Reviver of old Rites and Ceremonies to the Burdening of the People, nor an Abolisher of innocent Customs, which are their Pleasures and Recreations […]

   • 1968, Kingsley Amis, “After Goliath” in A Look Round the Estate: Poems 1957-1967, New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, pp. 7-8,^[3]

     Alastors, Austenites, A-test

     Abolishers—even the straightest

     Of issues looks pretty oblique

     When a movement turns into a clique,

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