disorderer

English

Etymology

disorder +‎ -er

Noun

disorderer (plural disorderers)

1. One who disorders.
   • 1853, Cornelius Mathews, Calmstorm, the Reformer: A Dramatic Comment, page 52:

     In the great Hall, I, yesterday Denounced him, a rioter, disorderer Of affairs, Who had some hidden views To serve, which be concealed, and they'd do well To learn and nip in the bud.

   • 1948, Heinrich Robert Zimmer, Joseph Campbell, The King and the Corpse: Tales of the Soul's Conquest of Evil:

     From the Creator to the last of his mind-born sons, the gods then were set mad, one after another, by the shots of the disorderer, their temperaments undergoing immediately a magnitudinous change.

   • 2001, Michael James Dennison, Vampirism: Literary Tropes of Decadence and Entropy, page 65:

     The being to whom the poet addresses himself is the spirit of the abyss, the disorderer of his being, and simultaneously, true to the tradition of Petrarch, the being he loves.