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Exorcist

//ˈɛk.sɔɹˌsɪst// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A person, especially a priest or priestess, who is a masterful practitioner in purification and exorcism to force out evil spirits and/or demons from a living being.
  2. 2
    someone who practices exorcism wordnet
  3. 3
    one of the minor orders in the unreformed Western Church but now suppressed in the Roman Catholic Church wordnet

Etymology

From Middle French exorciste, from Latin exorcista, from Ancient Greek ἐξορκιστής (exorkistḗs).

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