Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who persecutes; one who pursues and harasses another unjustly and vexatiously, particularly on account of religious principles.
Wiktionary
- n. A person or thing that persecutes or harasses.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. One who persecutes, or harasses.
WordNet 3.0
- n. someone who torments
Examples
“But true religion is rare, and the best modern security against the persecutor is the secular power.”
“I trembled lest this Barnard, if so I should still continue to call her persecutor, should again discover and again molest her.”
“This, said he, (and honoured me by kissing my hand,) is engaging, indeed; if I may hope, that my Pamela's gentle inclination for her persecutor was the strongest motive to her return; and I so much value a voluntary love in the person I would wish for my wife, that I would have even prudence and interest hardly named in comparison with it: And can you return me sincerely the honest compliment I now make you?”
“Among the types are the "persecutor" who micromanages or abuses others.”
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“He should be commended for standing his ground and laying into the government "persecutor".”
“When injured, he immediately forgave, as he hoped to be forgiven, [1] and when reviled and persecuted, he never became 'persecutor'.”
“This then leads you to lash out over something trivial as you become the "persecutor". ”
“Hitler was a "persecutor" of Jews, but the "enemy" of Jews was the power that occupied Palestine, the British.”
“-- My persecutor was a spy under your late King. ”
“We all know of Saint Paul's road to Damascus conversion, transforming himself from a rabid persecutor of Christians into their greatest promoter.”
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