Banisher

Part of speech: noun

Definitions

1. A person whose role is to exclude or drive away others from a certain environment or social group
2. An individual who forces others to leave a place or group against their will
3. Someone who removes or excludes people from a specific setting or community

Etymology: The word is built from "banish" plus the agent suffix "-er", and the suffix has a longer ancestry than the verb it attaches to. The "-er" ending passed into English from Old French "-ier", which came from Latin "-arius", a suffix that marked a person connected with a job or role. Those Latin forms descend from a Proto-Indo-European pattern, and the same suffix reached Old English as "-ere", the source of Middle English "-er". The noun was thus formed in English from an existing verb. The verb "banish" is the more complicated piece. Its story runs through Old French "banir", whose roots are Germanic and also tied to proclamation and public summons, so the word began with a sense of a formal call or edict rather than a simple act of driving someone away. "Banisher" therefore names the person who carries out that exile.

Synonyms: expeller, exile, remover, ejector, displacer

Antonyms: welcomer, inviter, receptive, embracer, acceptor