inflict
verb (used with object)
to impose as something that must be borne or suffered.
inflictor
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a word derived from
inflict.
Example Sentences
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The Gorgon is the power of evil in heaven, conquered by Athena, and thenceforward becoming her ægis, when she is herself the inflictor of evil.
From The Pleasures of England Lectures given in Oxford by John Ruskin
IV On ocean where the embattled fleets repair, Man, suffering inflictor, sails on sufferance there.
From John Marr and Other Poems by Herman Melville
"The infliction of pain is only justified when the inflictor is certain, or as nearly certain as he can be, that the pain will be productive of good," said Charles Osmond.
From We Two, a novel by Edna Lyall
I can offer no suggestion as to how the inflictor of the wound got in or out.
From The Grey Wig: Stories and Novelettes by Israel Zangwill
If any one ventured to complain, 'twas the sufferer, not the inflictor who was treated as culpable.
From The Wanderer (Volume 3 of 5) or, Female Difficulties by Fanny Burney
