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English
Noun
alienator (plural alienators)
- A person who alienates.
1820 December, Charles Lamb, “The Two Races of Men”, in The London Magazine, volume 2, number 12, page 624:To one like Elia, whose treasures are rather cased in leather covers, than closed in iron coffers, there is a class of alienators more formidable than that which I have touched upon; I mean, your borrowers of books—those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes.
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Latin
Verb
aliēnātor
- second/third-person singular future passive imperative of aliēnō
References
- alienator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- alienator in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016