"nihilator" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1980, Darshana International, volumes 20-21, J. P. Atreya, page 80:",
          "text": "Being alone can nihilate without itself being nihilated. In the act of nihilation the nihilator remains.",
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          "ref": "1988, Joseph C. McLelland, Prometheus Rebound: The Irony of Atheism, Wilfrid Laurier University Press, →ISBN, page 267:",
          "text": "Every ego is engaged in “a desperate effort to be” - desperate because we are all nihilators defending our fragile project of being, which necessarily involves mutual destruction: […]",
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          "ref": "1994, John Passmore, A Hundred Years of Philosophy, Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 606:",
          "text": "[…] French Resistance left him with a feeling of human solidarity quite absent from his earlier works, in which other people are most characteristically represented as Heidegger’s ‘They’ -- obstacles to our discovery of ourselves, nihilators of our possibilities.",
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