Meaning & use

Immolator

noun·Academic

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A person or thing that immolates, or sacrifices, especially by burning.

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In the ritual text, the immolator prepared the offering at dawn.

The novel's protagonist becomes an immolator of his own past ambitions.

A note on using this word

Immolator comes from Latin immolare, originally meaning "to sprinkle with sacrificial meal," which evolved into the broader sense of sacrificing or destroying by fire.

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sacrificer

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