disorderer
nounEtymology From disorder + -er.
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One who disorders.
- In the great Hall, I, yesterday Denounced him, a rioter, disorderer Of affairs, Who had some hidden views To serve, which be concealed, and they'd do well To learn and nip in the bud.1853, Cornelius Mathews, Calmstorm, the Reformer: A Dramatic Comment, page 52:
- From the Creator to the last of his mind-born sons, the gods then were set mad, one after another, by the shots of the disorderer, their temperaments undergoing immediately a magnitudinous change.1948, Heinrich Robert Zimmer, Joseph Campbell, The King and the Corpse: Tales of the Soul's Conquest of Evil:
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- The being to whom the poet addresses himself is the spirit of the abyss, the disorderer of his being, and simultaneously, true to the tradition of Petrarch, the being he loves.2001, Michael James Dennison, Vampirism: Literary Tropes of Decadence and Entropy, page 65: