Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who immolates or offers in sacrifice.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who offers in sacrifice; specifically, one of a sect of Russian fanatics who practice self-mutilation and sacrifice.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who
offers insacrifice . - noun historical One of a
sect ofRussian fanatics who practised self-mutilation and sacrifice.
Etymologies
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Examples
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He wants lefties to know that he can be a self-immolator, too.
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I know: The ancient culture of India and its people, even today, pay the price for its biggest immolator, Gandhi.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008
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Buffoon was not a proper name; bouphonos signifies an immolator of oxen.
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Marcus Aurelius was a great immolator of white cows.
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Caesar -- the victor and the immolator being placed side by side.
Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon Various
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Adam, after all, and never any sublime self-immolator, as two or three of them were.
The Purple Cloud 1906
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The statue of Hannibal was intended to recall the memory of Rome's most formidable enemy; and Rome herself was represented in the Consular Palace by the statues of Scipio, Cicero, Cato, Brutus and Caesar -- the victor and the immolator being placed side by side.
The Memoirs of Napoleon Bourrienne, Louis Antoine Fauvelet de 1836
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Caesar -- the victor and the immolator being placed side by side.
Memoirs of Napoleon — Complete Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne 1801
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Afghanistan with the suicide bomber, the self-immolator who turned America's soldiers from men who fight to men who hide. hyperbola
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Afghanistan with the suicide bomber, the self-immolator who turned America's soldiers from men who fight to men who hide. hyperbola
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