desecrater

English

Etymology

From desecrate +‎ -er.

Noun

desecrater (plural desecraters)

  1. Alternative spelling of desecrator.
    • 1882, Harper's Magazine:
      […] as if Nature denied her consolation to man, the desecrater of the forest temples she reared for his protection […]
    • 1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 210:
      They would again send fifty men out into the valley to find and capture this desecrater of their temple.
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