abnegator

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

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

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, John Bull’s Other Island, London: Constable, “Preface for Politicians,” p. 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”), from ab (“from, away from”) + negō (“deny; refuse, say no”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ab.neˈɡaː.tor/, [ab.nɛˈɡaː.tɔr]

abnegātor m (genitive abnegātōris); third declension

1. a denier

Third declension.

• 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 (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016