Discipliner
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 Agent noun of discipline: one who disciplines. agent, form-of
"[T]he punisher believes that the suffering she inflicts "somehow offsets" the (perceived) wrongdoing, but even the indignant discipliner (if suffering is what the discipliner inflicts) simply in order to attain a result: in order to educate, prevent, and so on."
Example
More examples"[T]he punisher believes that the suffering she inflicts "somehow offsets" the (perceived) wrongdoing, but even the indignant discipliner (if suffering is what the discipliner inflicts) simply in order to attain a result: in order to educate, prevent, and so on."
Etymology
From discipline + -er.
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