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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who punishes; one who inflicts pain, loss, or other evil for a crime or offense.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who inflicts punishment.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun One who punishes.

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

to punish + -er.

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