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

• 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

The sacrificer alone enters the shrine, but he takes with him his son or other person whom he has instructed in the ritual.

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

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

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 Bose, Shib Chunder

And now the Çatapatha-Brāhmana says explicitly: "The moon verily is the divine dog; he looks down upon the cattle of the sacrificer."

From Cerberus, The Dog of Hades The History of an Idea by Bloomfield, Maurice