massacrist

English

Etymology

massacre +‎ -ist

Noun

massacrist (plural massacrists)

1. (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.