ignicolist means A worshiper of fire. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.
Why this word is great
IGNICOLIST — [Noun] One who reveres or worships fire as a divine or sacred principle. From Latin ignis ("fire") and colere ("to worship, cultivate") combined with the English suffix -ist ("one who practices"). Unlike a pyromaniac, whose compulsion is destructive and psychological, or a Zoroastrian, whose veneration is codified within a specific faith, the ignicolist practices a solitary, elemental devotion. It is the hermit tending a blaze on a dark headland, the keeper of a perennial hearth in a world of electric light, the child transfixed by the last ember of a birthday candle—each finding, in fire’s consuming dance, a theology of pure transience: the first god found not in the sky, but in the kindling at one’s feet.
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- A worshiper of fire.“Van was delighted and shocked to distinguish, right there in the inky shrubbery, Ada in her long nightgown passing by with a lighted candle in one hand and a shoe in the other as if stealing after the belated ignicolists.”