[f. LEAVE v.1 + -ER1.] One who leaves (in various senses of the vb.).
1548. Udall, etc., Erasm. Par. Matt. xix. 96. This vertue is more estemed of thaffection of the leaver than of the greatnes of the thyng that is lefte.
1606. Shaks., Ant. & Cl., IV. ix. 22. But let the world ranke me in Register A Master leauer, and a fugitiue.
1652. J. B., To Brome on his Joviall Crew, Brome’s Wks. 1873, III. 347. The most our Leavers serve for, shews Onely that we’re his friends.
1883. G. W. Cable, in Century Mag., June, 219/2. Leaders of lonely lives, and leavers of great fortunes.
1890. G. Gissing, Emancipated, III. II. xvii. 288. Hither came no payers of formal calls, no leavers of cards.
