persecutor

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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)

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

Persecutor was a word that knocked upon the woman’s heart; it was her highest thought of wickedness, and the mark of it was on her house.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. XIX (of 25) The Ebb-Tide; Weir of Hermiston by Stevenson, Robert Louis

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