Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who inflicts.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who inflicts.
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- noun One who
inflicts .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The worst inflicter of poverty and ecological damage has been the coal industry, which has taken from the region a wealth probably incalculable, and has imposed the highest and most burdening 'costs of production' upon the land and the people.
Jeff Biggers: LIVE UPDATES: Wendell Berry Joins Retired Coal Miners and Residents in Kentucky Capitol Sit-in (Photos) Jeff Biggers 2011
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His power – in my opinion – was pretty different from the norm – when someone injures him, the inflicter feels double the amount of pain in the same area.
Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » Wings’ Second Review Forum 2009
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The worst inflicter of poverty and ecological damage has been the coal industry, which has taken from the region a wealth probably incalculable, and has imposed the highest and most burdening 'costs of production' upon the land and the people.
Jeff Biggers: LIVE UPDATES: Wendell Berry Joins Retired Coal Miners and Residents in Kentucky Capitol Sit-in (Photos) Jeff Biggers 2011
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The worst inflicter of poverty and ecological damage has been the coal industry, which has taken from the region a wealth probably incalculable, and has imposed the highest and most burdening 'costs of production' upon the land and the people.
Jeff Biggers: LIVE UPDATES: Wendell Berry Joins Retired Coal Miners and Residents in Kentucky Capitol Sit-in (Photos) Jeff Biggers 2011
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For if upon the infliction of a punishment death follow, not in the intention of the inflicter, the punishment is not to be esteemed capital, though the harm prove mortal by an accident not to be foreseen; in which case death is not inflicted, but hastened.
Leviathan 2007
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He had never seen such a fat boy, in or out of a travelling caravan; and this, coupled with the calmness and repose of his appearance, so very different from what was reasonably to have been expected of the inflicter of such knocks, smote him with wonder.
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But it enhances the fantasy of merger with an idealized and omnipotent (though not benign) other – the inflicter of agony.
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Number one, Wolf, having more convoys on those roads when the primary inflicter of casualties of American troops has been IEDs is, I think, not a good idea.
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‘I see you,’ cried Miss Pecksniff, to the ideal inflicter of a runaway knock.
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But without formal theological reasoning, most Christians have quietly realized that God the inflicter of eternal torture is not a concept they can live with.
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