abaser|əˈbeɪsə(r)|[f.abase v. + -er1.]1.He who, or that which, abases.1650J. WeekesTruth'sConfl.iii. 76Yours will be found the great exaltress of free-will, and the great abaser of free-grace.
1656J. TrappExpos.Rom.iv. 16Paul was a great advancer of the grace of God, and abaser of man.
†2.Rhet.The figure Tapinosis; depreciatory phraseology. Obs.1589PuttenhamEng.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.
