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Webster 1913 Edition
Persecutrix
Per′se-cuˊtrix
,Noun.
[L.]
A woman who persecutes.
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persecutrix
persecutrix
English
Noun
persecutrix (plural persecutrices)
- (rare) A female persecutor.
- 1868, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, A Lost Name
- ...and Madame de la Perriere — cruel to me when I was a little thing, a child, at her school, is my persecutrix still.
- 1861, Ellis Cornelia Knight, Autobiography of Miss Cornelia Knight
- She is the grand-daughter of poor Caroline Matilda, and he the grandson of her persecutrix, the Dowager Queen.
- 1868, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, A Lost Name