sacrificer

American  

[sak-ruh-fahys-er] / ˈsæk rəˌfaɪs ər /

noun

• sacrificers
  plural

1. a person, such as a worshiper or priest, who offers a religious sacrifice.

2. someone who gives up personal desires, time, or other resource, for the good of others or to achieve a goal.

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Other Word Forms

Derived Forms

• self-sacrificer
  noun

Inflected Forms

Nouns

• sacrificers
  plural

Example Sentences

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sacrificer sacrificers

Mama doesn’t mean “I love you, sweet angel-woman, sacrificer of sleep, career, and buttock firmness.”

From Salon ● May 13, 2013

The remainder of the food the sacrificer takes back to the assembled people; some of it he eats himself and some of it he gives to his assistant to eat.

From The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume I (of 3) The Belief Among the Aborigines of Australia, the Torres Straits Islands, New Guinea and Melanesia by Sir James George Frazer

What a slaughterer of years, what a sacrificer of happiness and ambitions, what a miner of careers this monster has been!

From Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

These draughts inspired thee, O lord of the brave! these were vigour, these libations, in battles, when for the sake of the poet, the sacrificer, thou struckest down irresistibly ten thousands of enemies.

From Chips From A German Workshop - Volume I Essays on the Science of Religion by F. Max (Friedrich Max) Müller

Agni, as the god of fire by which the offerings were consumed, was addressed as follows: “We kindle thee at the sacrifice, O wise Agni, the sacrificer, the luminous, the mighty.”

From The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India—Volume I (of IV) by R. V. (Robert Vane) Russell

May the yajna's pure ablution wash thee of the cruel sin, And the meed of sacrificers may the good Yudhishthir win!”

From Maha-bharata The Epic of Ancient India Condensed into English Verse by Romesh Dutt

Scientific abstraction is their God, living and real individuals are their victims, and they are the consecrated and licensed sacrificers.

From God and the State by Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin

Ye do not mean to slay, ye judges and sacrificers, until the animal hath bowed its head?

From Thus Spake Zarathustra A book for all and none by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Without touching directly upon the question of the coveted offices of public sacrificers, each one laid his own grievances before the proconsul.

From Herodias by Gustave Flaubert

In a Sattra the priests were regarded as the sacrificers and were initiated.

From Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 1 by Sir Charles Eliot