[f. ABASE v. + -ER1.]

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  1.  He who, or that which, abases.

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1650.  J. Weekes, Truth’s Confl., iii. 76. Yours will be found the great exaltress of free-will, and the great abaser of free-grace.

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1656.  J. Trapp, Expos. Rom. iv. 16. Paul was a great advancer of the grace of God, and abaser of man.

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  † 2.  Rhet. The figure Tapinosis; depreciatory phraseology. Obs.

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1589.  Puttenham, Eng. Poesie, 266 (1869). These and such other base wordes do greatly disgrace the thing, and the speaker or writer; the Greekes call it Tapinosis, we the Abaser.

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