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Persecutor vs Persecutrix - What's the difference?

persecutor | persecutrix |

As nouns the difference between persecutor and persecutrix

is that persecutor is a person or thing that persecutes or harasses while persecutrix is a female persecutor.

persecutor

English

Alternative forms

* persecutour (obsolete)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A person or thing that persecutes or harasses.
    • ----

    persecutrix

    English

    Noun

    (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.