persecutor

Noun

(plural persecutors)

A person or thing that persecutes or harasses.

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He was of course a persecutor of heretics.
It was only as a supporter of the orthodox church and persecutor of the heathen that Honorius displayed any energy.
Close by the park there stood, until the 19th century, a house believed to have belonged to the notorious Bishop Bonner, the persecutor of Protestants in the reign of Mary; his name is still attached to a street here.
She then became a persecutor in her own dominions of the very ideas she had encouraged in former years.
The first part of Mihiragula seems to be the name of the Persian deity Mithra, but his patron deity was Siva, and he left behind him the reputation of a ferocious persecutor of Buddhism.

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