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Answer for the clue "Someone who obtains pleasure from receiving punishment ", 9 letters:
masochist

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Masochist is the first full-length album by deathcore band Elysia . It was originally planned to be released on This City Is Burning Records , but problems forced them to release it independently. Plans for a re-release on the Tribunal Records label also ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. someone who obtains pleasure from receiving punishment [ant: sadist ]

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. someone who enjoy pain, or who derives pleasure from harm oneself or being harmed by others

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1895, from masochism + -ist .

Usage examples of masochist.

Ace Wyatt, he was as big a masochist as any ing at a party woman Tippen had ever dated.

And, dreams of Hope, how low have we gone and how desperate our situation when our only hope is a madman, a masochist, a vicious killer!

Publican and the masochist try to transform the ambiguity of human condition into a duality: sinner and judge, breast and hand.

By now, I thought I had detected more genuine than simulated modesty in her reactions, and I had no doubt that the emotional excitement of the moment had begun to carry this secretly eager masochist into an actual involvement with her role, one that far transcended the feigned pretense which she had thus far conveyed.

I had to deal here with two exquisite young masochists, who though they were both products of our smug Victorian society secretly experienced the same lustful desires as a tavern wench or others of that same lowly station in life.

With the kitchen cupboards empty she ambled up to the cafe below the Health Club on Santa Monica, which had been open since five for the benefit of masochists, and bought coffee, fruits, and bran muffins for herself and her guest.

Lucas, he's sort of the resident spiritual masochist, salivates at the mention of the word `discipline'.