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consummator en · NOUN

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cōnsummātor, by surface analysis, consummate + -or.

Meanings

1. One who consummates.
   • A great figure like Bach faces both ways, towards the past as well as to the future; others, like Palestrina, gather up in themselves all the efforts of the preceding generations leading up to them; they are the consummators of an era. And other revolutionary spirits, like Philip Emmanuel Bach, Mussorgsky and Stravinsky, will only look boldly forward from some lonely outpost; inventors and prophets, they are just as important and indispensable to music as the great consummators of the eras themselves. 1971, Arthur Eaglefield Hull, Music: Classical, Romantic & Modern, Books for Libraries Press, →ISBN, archived from the original on 25 Jun 2020, page 6:
   • The time was ripe and the consummators came: Dante in the south, Eckhart in the countries north of the Alps. 1922, “The Birth of Europe”, in Ellie Schleussner, transl., The Evolution of Love, translation of Die Drei Stufen der Erotik by Emil Lucka:
   • […] Zeus knows no superior, but only that Eternal Destiny which even he is compelled to obey. He is the Consummator (τέλειος) of all things with this reservation, that Fate or Necessity must have preordained the event which he brings to pass. 1855, Aeschylus, The Tragedies of Aeschylus, Whittaker, pages 16-17:

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