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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
sado-masochist

also sadomasochist, 1919; from comb. form of sadist + masochist. Related: Sadomasochistic; sado-masochistic. Earlier was sadistic-masochistic (1892).

Usage examples of "sado-masochist".

God must be, like the other God, a sado-masochist by nature, liking to give pain—the omnipotent fist ringed with smiling lips.

And the noble-suffering-martyr type, and the various romantic fantasies of adolescence, and the sado-masochist daydream, and so on.