PERSECUTOR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does persecutor mean? 

• PERSECUTOR (noun)
  The noun PERSECUTOR has 1 sense:

1. someone who torments

  Familiarity information: PERSECUTOR used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PERSECUTOR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who torments

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

persecutor; tormenter; tormentor

Hypernyms ("persecutor" is a kind of...):

oppressor (a person of authority who subjects others to undue pressures)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "persecutor"):

harasser (a persistent tormentor)

blighter; cuss; gadfly; pest; pesterer (a persistently annoying person)

tantaliser; tantalizer (someone who tantalizes; a tormentor who offers something desirable but keeps it just out of reach)

witch-hunter (someone who identifies and punishes people for their opinions)

Derivation:

persecute (cause to suffer)

 Context examples 

The strength I relied on is gone; I feel that I shall soon die, and he, my enemy and persecutor, may still be in being.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

But looking on my left hand, I saw a horse walking softly in the field; which my persecutors having sooner discovered, was the cause of their flight.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

He learned to sneak about camp, to be crafty, to know what was going on everywhere, to see and to hear everything and to reason accordingly, and successfully to devise ways and means of avoiding his implacable persecutor.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Every moment I feared to meet my persecutor.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Sometimes he commanded his countenance and tones and related the most horrible incidents with a tranquil voice, suppressing every mark of agitation; then, like a volcano bursting forth, his face would suddenly change to an expression of the wildest rage as he shrieked out imprecations on his persecutor.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)