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Disciplinarian vs Discipliner - What's the difference?

disciplinarian | discipliner | Synonyms |

Disciplinarian is a synonym of discipliner.


As a verb disciplinarian

is .

As a noun discipliner is

one who disciplines.

disciplinarian

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • One who exercises discipline.
    • He is the chief disciplinarian in the school.
  • (by extension) One who believes in discipline as a tool for regulation or control.

    • Related terms

    * disciple

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Relating to discipline.
  • * Milman
    • Disciplinarian system.

    discipliner

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • one who disciplines.
  • * 2006 , Leo Zaibert, Punishment and Retribution? , p. 33:
    • [T]he punisher believes that the suffering she inflicts "somehow offsets" the (perceived) wrongdoing, but even the indignant discipliner' (if suffering is what the ' discipliner inflicts) simply in order to attain a result: in order to educate, prevent, and so on.

    Synonyms

    * disciplinarian * punisher English agent nouns ----