massacrist
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]massacrist (plural massacrists)
- (rare) One who commits a massacre.
- 1935, Gerald Heard, The Source of Civilization:
- The paranoia of the Turkish Sultan Abdul, the massacrist, did not go further. To him, as to us, the choice seemed 'Thy life or mine'.
- 2001, James P Winter, Mediathink:
- Hence, as with Montreal Massacrist Marc Lepine, who murdered 14 women in 1989, it was an act devoid of anything other than personal context.