Executor vs Executioner - What's the difference?
executor | executioner |
A person who carries out some task.
(label) Someone appointed by a testator to administer a will; an administrator.
(obsolete) An executioner.
* 1599 , , I. ii. 203:
An official person who carries out the capital punishment of a criminal.
(archaic) executor
A hit man, especially being in a some organization.
Executioner is a related term of executor.
As nouns the difference between executor and executioner
is that executor is a person who carries out some task while executioner is an official person who carries out the capital punishment of a criminal.executor
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Alternative forms
* executour (obsolete)Noun
(wikipedia executor) (en noun)- The sad-eyed justice, with his surly hum, / Delivering o'er to executors pale / The lazy yawning drone.