persecutrix

A female persecutor.

Noun

  1. A 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...
    • 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 Name:

    Synonyms: persecutress

Origin

Learned borrowing from Latin persecūtrīx. First attested in 1559–1566. By surface analysis, persecute + -trix.

Forms

persecutrices