单词 | persecutor |
释义 | persecutorn. A person who or (occasionally) thing which persecutes or pursues; an oppressor. 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 c1450 tr. G. Deguileville Pilgrimage Lyfe Manhode (Cambr.) (1869) 186 (MED) Sathan..kyng and lord of iniquitee and persecutour of equitee. 1484 W. Caxton tr. Subtyl Historyes & Fables Esope vi. viii We haue a grete enemye, whiche is a grete persecutour ouer vs alle. a1500 (?a1450) St. Dorothy (Harl.) 8 in C. Horstmann Sammlung Altengl. Legenden (1878) 191 (MED) There were many persecutours, tyrans cruelle that wolde not suffre Cristis servantis in pees to be. a1530 (c1425) Andrew of Wyntoun Oryg. Cron. Scotl. (Royal) v. 3545 That fell persecutoure. 1624 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy (ed. 2) 539 A persecutor with hue and cry to follow, an apparitor to summon vs, a bayliffe to carry us. 1628 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy (ed. 3) iii. iv. i. iii. 600 Lucian, that adamantine persequutor of superstition. a1684 R. Leighton Serm. in Wks. (1830) III. 209 The..persecutors of our holy religion..are very wrongfully misprejudiced against it. a1734 R. North Examen (1740) iii. v. §2. 316 Papists and mortal Persecutors of the Godly. 1776 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall (1819) II. xvi. 418 The ancient apologists of christianity have censured, with equal truth and severity, the irregular conduct of their persecutors. 1832 H. Blunt Lect. Hist. St. Paul (ed. 2) I. 40 That the lion had become a lamb, that the persecutor was now a humble and inquiring believer. 1897 Expositor's Greek Test. I. 164/1 Even persecutors and guillotineers get weary of their savage work. 1919 Outing Mar. 305/1 In the wilds what protection do they [sc. turkeys] have from wildcats, from eagles, from weasels..and from all their other predatory persecutors? 1988 H. S. Strean Behind Couch ii. 42 This was a paranoid man who saw me as a potential persecutor. 2001 Amer. Jrnl. Internat. Law 95 361 A claimant must show more than a generalized motive based on such factors as race, religion, and political opinion on the part of the persecutor. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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