sacrificer

American  

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

noun

plural

sacrificers

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

• self-sacrificer noun

Example Sentences

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

From Salon • May 13, 2013

Herodotus has already told us, that the animals were led to a pure place, and when the sacrificer had invoked the god were killed, cut up, cooked, and then laid out on delicate grass.

From The History of Antiquity Vol. V. by Duncker, Max

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 R?ville, Albert

When the cutting up is finished, the chief sacrificer takes a bit of flesh from the pig, and he takes a cocoa-nut shell and dips up some of the blood.

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 Frazer, James George, Sir

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 Marden, Orison Swett