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inflicter en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ɪnˈflɪktəɹ/

Etymology

From inflict + -er.

Meanings

1. One who inflicts.
   • BLACKE PLUTOES GRIESLY DAME, Proserpine, the avenger of men, and inflicter of curses on the dead. 1590, Edmund Spenser, Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I, published 1921:
   • At the core of their own hearts there stands an inflicter of no less agonies. 1846, Leigh Hunt, Stories from the Italian Poets= With Lives of the Writers, Vol. 2:
   • But there is a further group of cases, and a very important group, on account of the light it throws on the essential nature of these phenomena, and that is the group in which the thought or the spectacle of pain acts as a sexual stimulant, without the subject identifying himself clearly either with the inflicter or the sufferer of the pain. 1927, Havelock Ellis, Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 3 (of 6):

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