destinator redux; destinatee indux

[Jonathan Lighter]

OED has "destinator" from 1579 but marks it "rare."  Well, let's hope so; but Dr. Haidu uses it a lot:

  1993 Peter Haidu _The Subject of Violence_ (Bloomington: I.U.P.) 23: His appropriate performance of a culturally required ritual...allows for his transformation from a successful narrative subject into the destinatee of the final sanction from the religious destinator.

  That means, "Through this requisite proof of piety, Roland is transformed and by grace is raised to Heaven."

  The author doesn't use "destinatee" quite as much.  Not in OED.

  JL


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