persecutrix
nounUK /ˌpɜː.sɪˈkjuː.tɹɪks/ · CA, US /ˌpɜɹ.sɪˈkju.tɹɪks/
Etymology Learned borrowing from Latin persecūtrīx. First attested in 1559–1566. By surface analysis, persecute + -trix.
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Rare A female persecutor.
- […]Jesabel,[…] ; a cruell persecutrix of Goddis people,[…].1559–1566, John Knox, The History of the Reformation in Scotland; republished as Laing, David, editor, The Works of John Knox, volume 1, Edinburgh: James Thin, 1895, page 244:
- She is the grand-daughter of poor Caroline Matilda, and he the grandson of her persecutrix, the Dowager Queen.1861, Cornelia Knight, Autobiography:
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- ...and Madame de la Perriere — cruel to me when I was a little thing, a child, at her school, is my persecutrix still.1868, Sheridan Le Fanu, A Lost Name: