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inflictor

inflictor is the alternative form of inflicter.

Meaning of inflicter

Noun

inflicter (plural inflicters)

  1. One who inflicts.
    • BLACKE PLUTOES GRIESLY DAME, Proserpine, the avenger of men, and inflicter of curses on the dead.1590, Edmund Spenser, Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I, published 1921

Forms of inflictor

pluralinflictors

Origin of inflictor

From inflict + -or.

Questions about inflictor

What is inflictor the alternative form of?
Inflictor is the alternative form of inflicter.

Words near inflictor in the dictionary

  1. infliction
  2. inflictions
  3. inflictive
  4. inflictment
  5. inflictments
  6. inflictor
  7. inflictors
  8. inflicts
  9. inflight
  10. infliximab
  11. inflood

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