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

If there were a shrine in the sanctuary, nobody but the sacrificer might enter it.

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

And it is also probable that certain persons combined in their own individuality the functions of magician and sacrificer as well as soothsayer.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" by Various

In every village a public ghost is worshipped, and the chief is the sacrificer.

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

These goats thus sacrificed and the Śûdra sacrificer who meanwhile had died by a sudden fever, after a short time were all re-born in the world to undergo the results of their goodness or sin.

From Tales of the Sun or Folklore of Southern India by Mrs. Howard Kingscote

They are, next to the sacrificers, the most important persons about the temples.

From Primitive Love and Love-Stories by Henry Theophilus Finck

The Bards were hymn-writers and poets, the Seers sacrificers and men of science, while the Druids, in addition to natural science, practised also moral philosophy. 

From Celtic Religion in Pre-Christian Times by Edward Anwyl

At the point and on the day assigned, all the sacrificers assemble, or possibly one member of each of the families who are in mourning, at times fifty or more.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century, Volume XLIII, 1670-1700 by Various

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

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

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