Meanings
plural persecutrices
- rareA female persecutor.
[…]Jesabel,[…] ; a cruell persecutrix of Goddis people,[…].
1559–1566, John Knox, The History of the Reformation in Scotland; republished as Laing, David, editor, The Works of John Knox, volume 1, Edinburgh: James Thin, 1895, page 2442 more examples
She is the grand-daughter of poor Caroline Matilda, and he the grandson of her persecutrix, the Dowager Queen.
1861, Cornelia Knight, Autobiography...and Madame de la Perriere — cruel to me when I was a little thing, a child, at her school, is my persecutrix still.
1868, Sheridan Le Fanu, A Lost NameSynonyms: persecutress
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA female persecutor.
Origin
- Latinpersecūtrīx
- Latinpersecūtrīx
- Englishpersecutrix
Learned borrowing from Latin persecūtrīx. First attested in 1559–1566. By surface analysis, persecute + -trix.
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