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Noun
ruinator (plural ruinators)
- One who causes ruin.
1831 Jan, Ettrick Shepherd, “The Unearthly Witness”, in The Atheneum; or Spirit of the English Magazines (3), volume 5, number 7, Boston: John Cotton, page 326:He threatened his ruinator with the High Court of Justiciary, of which Tibbers highly approved.
1851 Oct, T. Stephens, quoting Taliesin, “The Poems of Taliesin, No. III”, in Archæologia Cambrensis, a Record of the Antiquities of Wales and its Marches, and the Journal of the Cambrian Archæological Association (New), volume II, number VIII, London: W. Pickering, The Elegy of Aeddon of Mona, page 267:The universal ruler, / The end of all emulation, / The ruinator of sovereignty, / Rueful Destiny! / Demanded Aeddon, / For the grave.
1891, W. J. Loftie, chapter 5, in London City: Its History, Streets, Traffic, Buildings, People, London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., Ltd., page 176:We had a second example in the Chapel of Lincoln’s Inn, but it has been lately ruined by the ruinator of St. Albans Abbey.