masochist
(ˈmæsəkɪst)
[f. as masochism + -ist.]
One who is given to masochism.
| 1895 tr. M. Nordau's Degeneration v. i. 538 Masochists or passivists..clothe themselves in a costume which recalls, by colour and cut, feminine apparel. 1917 C. R. Payne tr. Pfister's Psychoanal. Method 78 Very many tormentors of animals are..sadists, consequently also, more or less masochists. 1957 London Mag. Jan. 75 Psychologically her affinities were with the more heroic type of masochist, such as Saint-Exupéry, T. E. Lawrence, and Orwell. 1974 ‘J. Melville’ Nun's Castle iv. 88 ‘Are you telling me Lynnet was some sort of masochist?’..‘I think she associated love and pain.’ |