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perpetuator

noun

Etymology

From perpetuate + -or.

  1. derived from *peth₂-✻ — “to spread out; to fly”
  2. learned borrowing from perpetuātus — “perpetuated”
  3. suffixed as perpetuator — “perpetuate + or”

Definitions

  1. One who perpetuates.

    • Pornography, a business many feel may be the essence and perpetuator of so many straight men's need to prove their masculinity by abusing women.
    • Thus, by the end of the twentieth century, Christian scholars of Islam had become the unwitting guardians and perpetuators of the myth of Islamic tolerance.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA