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persecutor

[ UK /pˈɜːsɪkjˌuːtɐ/ ]
[ US /ˈpɝsəkˌjutɝ/ ]
NOUN
  1. someone who torments

How To Use persecutor In A Sentence

  • She has not gained insight into her pre-existing persecutory beliefs.
  • 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
  • I actually even think he had ultimately forgiven his persecutors and the slayers of his family -- and that would be a mastership that one can only view with awe. Mike Schwager: Remembering My Father: His Greatest Lesson to Me Was His Life
  • He admits that he was once a blasphemer and a persecutor of the faith.
  • Every afternoon, the lepers would gather at the fence to mock the lunatics as they were let out for their exercise, performing their strange dances and shouting at unseen persecutors.
  • The term delusional disorder was suggested by Winokur 1072 to avoid the confusion resulting from the diverse concepts of paranoia and the ambiguity of that term, which has been used to denote insanity, suspiciousness, persecutory or grandiose delusions, schizophrenia, and a specific disease entity distinct from other psychoses. The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry
  • 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."
  • However, in my attempts to understand I am not hampered by the persecutory activities of the state, religion or the mob.
  • As Laurin Zilliacus reminds us, the Book of Esther describes “the use of posts to order the slaughter of the Jews throughout Persian-ruled territory, and then the swift sending of the counter-order that saved them and turned the tables on their persecutors.” The Tyranny of E-mail
  • The robot scampers around a bit, but when the physicist raises the hammer, the machine turns over on its back, emits a few piteous squeals, and looks up at its persecutor with enormous, terror-stricken eyes.
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