persecutor

[ UK /pˈɜːsɪkjˌuːtɐ/ ]
[ US /ˈpɝsəkˌjutɝ/ ]
NOUN
  1. someone who torments
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How To Use persecutor In A Sentence

  • We had returned nearly to the hotel in this undignified manner, the throng of persecutors gathering strength as we entered the streets, till we were completely surrounded -- those in front walking backwards, and stopping every now and then suddenly, that we might be jostled against by those who were thronging behind, all bellowing the pandemoniacal chorus, without words and still less tune. Sea-Gift. A Novel.
  • God hath fitted for the special use of these times with eminent and ample gifts, and those perhaps neither among the priests nor among the Pharisees, and we in the haste of a precipitant zeal shall make no distinction, but resolve to stop their mouths, because we fear they come with new and dangerous opinions, as we commonly forejudge them ere we understand them; no less than woe to us, while, thinking thus to defend the Gospel, we are found the persecutors. Areopagitica
  • The goat went last and she did not bleat, but dextrously butted two of her persecutors and micturated upon the third before being cast into space. Greener Than You Think
  • Maybe they are really the Puritans of our age, a kind of persecutory cult of moral perfectionism? American Thinker
  • This then leads you to lash out over something trivial as you become the "persecutor". ' Home | Mail Online
  • Where sin abounded, grace did much more abound "(Ro 5: 20). with faith -- accompanied with faith, the opposite of" unbelief "(1Ti love -- in contrast to" a blasphemer, persecutor, and injurious. "which is in Christ -- as its element and home [Alford]: here as its source whence it flows to us. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
  • The near-impossibility of arguing people out of political, social and religious beliefs is the same phenomenon as the impossibility of arguing deluded patients out of their false persecutory or jealous beliefs.www. hedweb.com/bgcharlton/delusions. html Election Prediction: Voting will be Irrational, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
  • Men spoke to him of the mild beams of Christian charity, and where they pointed he saw only the yellow glare of the stake; they talked of the gentle solace of Christian faith, and he heard only the shrieks of the thousands and tens of thousands whom faithful Christian persecutors had racked, strangled, gibbeted, burned, broken on the wheel. Voltaire
  • He added, ‘This did not prevent endless hysterical, persecutory coverage with tabloids hounding doctors and managers.’
  • He asks whether the persecutory figures are still there.
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