absenter
/æbˈsɛn.tɚ/
absenter noun: one who stays away; one who absents herself or himself. Also the comparative form of absent.
Noun
absenter (plural absenters)
- One who stays away; one who absents herself or himself.
- […] if many of them that vse the meanes of saluation, shall not bee saued, where shall wilfull Recusants, obstinate absenters, and carelesse contemners of the Word, appeare?1621, Thomas Taylor, The Parable of the Sower and the Seed, London: John Bartlet, page 259
- It was little to be wondered at, from this account that the country-folk refused to go to the parish church, and chose rather to listen to outed ministers in the fields. But this was not to be allowed, and their persecutors at last fell on the method of calling a roll of the parishioners’ names...1966, Robert Louis Stevenson, The Pentland Rising: A Page of History, Edinburgh: Andrew Elliot, Chapter 1, p. 4
Also used as
absenter is also the comparative form of absent.
Forms of absenter
| plural | absenters |
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Origin of absenter
From absent + -er.
Words that rhyme with absenter
- center
- enter
- tormentor
- concentre
- presenter
- renter
- stentor
- venter
- accentor
- cementer
- decentre
- preventer
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- reenter
- tenter
- assenter
- fermenter
- hypocentre
- indenter
- off-centre
- Valley Center
- assentor
- augmenter
- augmentor
- barycentre
- centre
- coinventor
- concenter
- consenter
- correction center
- correction centre
- decenter
- dementor
- dissenter
- entre
- fermentor
- fomenter
- incenter
- incentre
- indentor
- innoventor
- inventer
- inventor
- inventour
- lamenter
- mentor
- metacentre
- misenter
- off-center
- orthocenter
- orthocentre
- precentor
- re-enter
- re-entre
- reentre
- repenter
- representer
- salipenter
- Siberian accentor
- tormenter
Questions about absenter
- What does absenter mean?
- Absenter means one who stays away; one who absents herself or himself.
- What part of speech is absenter?
- Absenter is a noun.
- How do you pronounce absenter?
- Absenter is pronounced /æbˈsɛn.tɚ/ (US).
- What is the plural of absenter?
- The plural of absenter is absenters.
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