Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who persecutes; one who pursues and harasses another unjustly and vexatiously, particularly on account of religious principles.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who persecutes, or harasses.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A person or thing that persecutes or harasses.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun someone who torments

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Examples

  • But true religion is rare, and the best modern security against the persecutor is the secular power.

    The Life of Froude Paul, Herbert 1905

  • But true religion is rare, and the best modern security against the persecutor is the secular power.

    The Life of Froude 1894

  • I trembled lest this Barnard, if so I should still continue to call her persecutor, should again discover and again molest her.

    Devereux — Volume 03 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • I trembled lest this Barnard, if so I should still continue to call her persecutor, should again discover and again molest her.

    Devereux — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • 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?

    Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded Samuel Richardson 1725

  • Among the types are the "persecutor" who micromanages or abuses others.

    How Dad's Yelling Can Spawn an Office Tyrant 2010

  • He should be commended for standing his ground and laying into the government "persecutor".

    "The government has no legal or moral authority to interrogate me or anyone else for publishing these words and pictures." Ann Althouse 2008

  • When injured, he immediately forgave, as he hoped to be forgiven, [1] and when reviled and persecuted, he never became 'persecutor'.

    The Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1838 James Gillman

  • This then leads you to lash out over something trivial as you become the "persecutor". '

    Home | Mail Online 2010

  • Hitler was a "persecutor" of Jews, but the "enemy" of Jews was the power that occupied Palestine, the British.

    Signs of the Times 2008

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