Sacrificer

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Someone who sacrifices, one who makes a sacrifice.

    "Our course will seem too bloody, Caius Cassius, To cut the head off and then hack the limbs, Like wrath in death and envy afterwards; For Antony is but a limb of Caesar: Let us be sacrificers, but not butchers, Caius."

  2. 2
    a religious person who offers up a sacrifice wordnet

Synonyms

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priestesssacrificantsacrificantsacrificatorsacrificatorsacrificatrix

Example

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"Our course will seem too bloody, Caius Cassius, To cut the head off and then hack the limbs, Like wrath in death and envy afterwards; For Antony is but a limb of Caesar: Let us be sacrificers, but not butchers, Caius."

Etymology

From sacrifice + -er.

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self sacrificer

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