Decrucifier

noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Someone or something that decrucifies. rare

    "The crucifixion of the Princess in Tête d'or is, ostensibly, a revenge, not for an emotional but for a social wrong, yet it is clear, I think, that a substitution has taken place. In the Princess's own wish - and we are in the land of wishes - her decrucifier, Tête d'Or, was also her crucifier: […]"

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"The crucifixion of the Princess in Tête d'or is, ostensibly, a revenge, not for an emotional but for a social wrong, yet it is clear, I think, that a substitution has taken place. In the Princess's own wish - and we are in the land of wishes - her decrucifier, Tête d'Or, was also her crucifier: […]"

Etymology

From decrucify + -er.

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