humiliator
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin humiliātor.[1] By surface analysis, humiliate + -or.
Noun
[edit]humiliator (plural humiliators)
- One who humiliates.
- 1941 December 22, “Yamamoto v. the Dragon”, in Time:
- Togo. Japan's greatest previous naval hero, victor of Tsushima, humiliator of the Russians.
- 2000 April 3, Kenneth L. Fisher, “Break Their Crystal Balls”, in Forbes:
- The market is the Great Humiliator.
References
[edit]- ^ “humiliator, n.”, in OED Online
, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
Latin
[edit]Verb
[edit]humiliātor