imprecator means one who imprecates or curses. It carries an Arena rating of 1440, earned across 49 head-to-head judged battles.
Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, imprecator ranks #1,002 of 17,131 for Scariest Words, #1,183 of 17,128 for Most Ponderous Words, #2,128 of 17,126 for Most Satisfying to Say, #3,806 of 17,138 for Most Incisive Words.
Why “imprecator” is a great word
IMPRECATOR — [Noun] One who invokes evil or utters curses. From the English verb imprecate (meaning 'to invoke evil upon, to curse'), itself from Latin imprecatus, past participle of imprecari (in- 'upon, against' + precari 'to pray, entreat'), combined with the agent noun suffix -or. Unlike a blasphemer, who directs contempt toward the sacred, or a maledictor, who utters direct curses, an imprecator solemnly formalizes a plea for harm, wielding prayer's structure for malevolent ends. He is the voice on the windswept heath calling down pestilence, the hand tracing a curse in the dust of a sealed threshold, the cold breath that shapes a malevolent wish—a practitioner of prayer’s dark and inverted twin, whose words are calibrated instruments of wished-for ruin.
Etymology
From imprecate + -or.
noun
- One who imprecates or curses.
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