[f. ABSENT v. + -ER1.] One who absents himself; who does not attend.
1678. Marvell, Corresp., Lett. 86, Wks. 1872–5, II. 233. The House was calld on Thursday, and ordered that the absenters should each be fined 40l.
1705. Stanhope, Paraphr., III. 207. Had not these Absenters from the Feast before us, all this to alledge in their own Vindication?
1829. Southey, in Q. Rev., XXXIX. 143. The dissenters and the absenters … will properly encourage the college in which any religion may be taught, or none.
