单词 | persecuter |
释义 | persecutern. = persecutor n. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > hostile action or attack > [noun] > persecution > one who warrer?c1225 warrayinga1300 pursuera1382 warriora1400 persecutorc1450 persecuter1526 prosecutor1542 dragooner1688 worrier1712 heresy-hunter1765 witch-hunter1917 1526 Bible (Tyndale) 1 Tim. i. 13 I was a blasphemar, and a persecuter, and a tyraunt. 1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) II. 1848/1 What a Gospeller [he]..was in King Edwardes tyme, which now turning with ye world sheweth him self such a bytter Persecuter..in Queene Maries time. 1642 J. Milton Apol. Smectymnuus 39 A needlesse and jolly persecuter call'd Indifference. 1696 C. Cibber Love's Last Shift iii. 47 A constant Persecuter of Woman-kind. 1731 E. Thomas Pylades & Corinna v. You would have reason to think me, a worse persecuter than the malicious Hag. 1867 B. Harte Condensed Novels 171 I had a faint remembrance of a boy..with scarlet hair, who was a playmate and persecuter of Melons. 1950 tr. P. Corneille in H. H. Adams & B. Hathaway Dramatic Ess. Neoclassic Age 10 It [sc. misfortune] excites greater indignation against the persecuter than pity for the misfortunes. 2000 Arkansas Democrat-Gaz. (Nexis) 17 Dec. j3 The misdeeds were performed by Archie's persecuters, but expect no apology from that gang. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1526 |
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