persecutor

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He early became the foremost Persecutor and Vice-Crusader of the new world.

From The Man in Gray by Dixon, Thomas

Archbishop Williams' Persecutor, R.K.—Any information will be thankfully received of the ancestors, collaterals, or descendants, of the notorious R.K.—the unprincipled persecutor of Archbp.

From Notes and Queries, Number 32, June 8, 1850 by Various

I knew at a glance that it was John Graham of Claverhouse, whom all the land of the South knew as "the Persecutor."

From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)

But an indignant world must in justice inscribe upon his tomb, "Tyrant and Persecutor."

From The Empire of Austria; Its Rise and Present Power by Abbott, John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot)

"The Great Persecutor," as he was sometimes styled, had been finally foiled.

From James Fenimore Cooper American Men of Letters by Lounsbury, Thomas Raynesford