scandalizer

English

Etymology

scandalize +‎ -er

Noun

scandalizer (plural scandalizers)

  1. One who scandalizes.
    • 1842, [anonymous collaborator of Letitia Elizabeth Landon], chapter XLVII, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 304:
      ...and, happily, Lady Anne was incapable of fulfilling her own purpose, and of displaying herself, at once, as the scandalizer of the order she was proud of, and the mother who could injure and disgrace so admirable a family of daughters.

Latin

Verb

scandalizer

  1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of scandalizō
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