perpetuatorn.
/pəˈpɛtʃʊeɪtə/, /pəˈpɛtjʊeɪtə/, U.S. /pərˈpɛtʃəˌweɪdər/ A person who or thing which perpetuates something.
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the world > time > duration > eternity or infinite duration > [noun] > making eternal or perpetuating > one who perpetuates
perpetuator?1775
?1775 Curiosities Great Brit. II. 121 There is also the figure of a child, much defaced and in pieces, and the whole is ruinous, for want of that necessary care due to such antient perpetuators of the memory of mankind.
1806 Lady Morgan Wild Irish Girl II. xviii. 169 The whole country blazes..while the unconscious perpetuators of the heathen ceremony dance round the fire in circles.
1871 S. Smiles Character i. 27 They are the heirs of their greatness, and ought to be the perpetuators of their glory.
1922 J. Joyce Ulysses iii. xvii. [Ithaca] 668 All perpetuators of international animosities.
1980 Sci. Amer. (U.K. ed.) Jan. 108/3 These characteristics make the skunk an effective perpetuator and disseminator of rabies.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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