ruinator

See also: ruinător

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɹuː.ɪn.eɪ.tə/
• Rhymes: -eɪtə(ɹ)

Noun

ruinator (plural ruinators)

1. 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.