perpetuator

English

Etymology

perpetuate +‎ -or

Noun

perpetuator (plural perpetuators)

  1. One who perpetuates.
    • 1977 April 30, Dai Thompson, “Conntact”, in Gay Community News, page 2:
      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.
    • 2005, Robert Spencer, The myth of Islamic tolerance:
      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.

Latin

Verb

perpetuātor

  1. second/third-person singular future passive imperative of perpetuō
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