Inflicter
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ɪnˈflɪktəɹ/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Inflicter is a noun meaning One who inflicts.
Meaning
One who inflicts.
Example Sentences
At the core of their own hearts there stands an inflicter of no less agonies.
BLACKE PLUTOES GRIESLY DAME, Proserpine, the avenger of men, and inflicter of curses on the dead.
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.
Word Forms
- inflicters
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include infliction, impaler, scathe, incendiary, wounding, slasher.
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