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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
disciplinarian
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
strict
▪ Superintendent Robertson did not care about the mutterings from the lower ranks against her strict disciplinarian attitude.
▪ From what Mama told me, Admiral Makarov was a strict disciplinarian, and Dad hated him.
▪ Mr. Russ was an excellent teacher - a fair man, but whilst a strict disciplinarian, was kindly.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ She was a wonderful teacher, but a strict disciplinarian.
▪ The store manager was a disciplinarian, but was always fair to his staff.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He could be a severe disciplinarian but he was not a rigid man.
▪ He was a real disciplinarian who believed that playing the right notes is the most important thing in music.
▪ Her distance from the moneymaking machine reduced her credibility as a disciplinarian to zero.
▪ His disciplinarian approach was seen to be at odds with West Ham's tradition as a freewheeling and creative team.
▪ Nana, in fact, had been the disciplinarian in my family.
▪ Such a deeply mistaken belief can only come from a citizen of a country with a disciplinarian attitude to politics.
▪ Such an organization would have been an easy target for Labour's disciplinarians.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Disciplinarian

Disciplinarian \Dis`ci*plin*a"ri*an\, a. Pertaining to discipline. ``Displinarian system.''
--Milman.

Disciplinarian

Disciplinarian \Dis`ci*plin*a"ri*an\, n.

  1. One who disciplines; one who excels in training, especially with training, especially with regard to order and obedience; one who enforces rigid discipline; a stickler for the observance of rules and methods of training; as, he is a better disciplinarian than scholar.

  2. A Puritan or Presbyterian; -- because of rigid adherence to religious or church discipline. [Obs.]

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
disciplinarian

"one who enforces order," 1630s, see discipline; earlier used of Puritans who wanted to establish the Presbyterian "discipline" in England (1580s). Meaning "advocate of greater discipline" is from 1746.

Wiktionary
disciplinarian

a. Relating to discipline. n. 1 One who exercises discipline. 2 (context by extension English) One who believes in discipline as a tool for regulation or control.

WordNet
disciplinarian

n. someone who demands exact conformity to rules and forms [syn: martinet, moralist]

Usage examples of "disciplinarian".

Novice Master, Keeper of Arcana, and Hebdomader, or chief disciplinarian of the Brothers.

System as the embodiment of soullessness, and, insofar as he had ever been known to show emotion or feeling before any undergraduate, he seemed to glory in his repute of being the most pitilessly rigid disciplinarian that Earth had ever known.

Meara could be a stern disciplinarian, but she always reminded Ula that she loved her.

At home, my parents, being neither heavy moralizers nor stringent disciplinarians, continued life as usual.

Though a loose liver among his guests, the governor was a strict disciplinarian among his men.

Hanrahan had also heard that Colonel Miner, a strict disciplinarian, was considered just the man to shape up Hanrahan's ragtag army of misfits and ne'er-do-wells and turn them back into decent paratroopers.

We need someone who can be a disciplinarian but not a martinet, a people person, open to new ideas and concepts but still able to use his experiences and battle skills from this time effectively.