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

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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

At the head of all the priests of the empire, first after the reigning Inca, stood the Villac Oumau, "the chief sacrificer," also, as we have seen, called the Huacapvillac.

From Lectures on the Origin and Growth of Religion as Illustrated by the Native Religions of Mexico and Peru by Albert R?ville

The sacrificer believed himself to be redeemed by means of the sacrifice.

From The Hindoos as they Are A Description of the Manners, Customs and the Inner Life of Hindoo Society in Bengal by Shib Chunder Bose

In the case of private sacrifices the rest of the animal was taken home by the sacrificer, to be used for a meal or sent as a present to friends.

From Pagan and Christian Rome by Rodolfo Amedeo Lanciani

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

Numerous sacrificers burnt their offerings, while their female companions in long white garments sitting on golden seats prophesied the future.

From Caucasian Legends by Abraam Abraamovich Goulbat

I think they must be all those in which the kings of Kâu appeared as the principals or sacrificers.

From The Shih King From the Sacred Books of the East Volume 3 by James Legge

Around the great brazen altar, which rose in the court of the priests before the door of the Temple, stood in front the sacrificers, all around the whole choir, arrayed in white linen.

From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 01 by John Rudd

Part, Their due, th' official sacrificers took; To swell the feast the rest was given.

From The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II by J. J. Howard

"Do you know, child, where are the sacrificers and the people?"

From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 06 — Fiction by Arthur Mee

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