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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[L.: cf. F.

persécuteur

One who persecutes, or harasses.

Shak.

Noun.

One that persecutes; one that pursues another unjustly and vexatiously, particularly on account of religious principles.

Henry rejected the pope's supremacy, but retained every corruption beside, and became a cruel persecutor.