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executioner Definition

ex·ecu·tioner (-ər)

noun

a person who carries out the death penalty as imposed by a court
executioner Synonyms

executioner

n.

hangman, electrocutioner, strangler, firing squad, death squad, headsman, garroter, killer, lyncher, hit man*, hired gun*; see also killer.

executioner Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • become: Jesus Christ himself will become the executioner upon such a wicked people.
  • see: Every moment I expect to see the executioner arrive with his ax.
  • face: Early in 2006, the fellows will begin their battles on behalf of the men and women facing the executioner.
  • convert: On the way to the execution, Alban converted the executioner to Christianity and he became a martyr, too.
  • tell: He bore his agony with great composure and then told the executioner to turn him over to do the other side.
  • ask: The king asked the executioner " Is my hair well?

Preposition: at

  • blow: And after a little pause, stretching forth his hands, the executioner at one blow severed his head from his body.

Adjective modifier

  • willing: That is what Slobodan Milosevic ' s willing executioners have done to Kosovo.
  • chief: Such work was to earn Eichmann the title ' Chief Executioner of the Third Reich ' .
  • public: Killing on behalf of the public executioner, Is called cutting wood on behalf of the carpenter.
  • own: God is good, and I am sure He would not have me become my own executioner.
  • common: Finally he was conveyed beyond the Burgh roods by the common executioner.

Preposition: on

  • occassion: The executioner Scott was the executioner on this occassion.

Possessives

  • ax: The Executioner's ax has fallen for the final time.
  • song: Mailer becomes paternal to Gilmore as the author of The Executioner's Song.
  • sword: On the wall hung a large Japanese executioner's sword.
  • hood: One day he acquired an executioner's hood dating back to the Middle Ages.
  • block: If she can occupy the King with her stories then she can avoid the executioner's block.

Preposition: of

  • revolution: Hitler, the conqueror, has naturally day-dreams of becoming the chief executioner of the proletarian revolution in any part of Europe.
executioner Quotes

   esta¤   dema¤  s decirte que a esta altura no creo en predicadores ni en generales ni en las nalgas de miss universo ni en el arrepentimiento de los verdugos ni en el catecismo del confort ni en el flaco perdo¤  n de dios. It's not useless to tell you that, at this stage, I don't believe in preachers or generals or in Miss Universe's buttocks or in the executioner's repentance or in the catechism of comfort or in God's slim forgiving.

—Benedetti, Mario

Defer, defer, To the Lord High Executioner!

—Gilbert, Sir W(illiam) S(chwenck)

But I do nothing upon my self, and yet I am mine own executioner.

—Donne,John