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tormentor
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1300, from Anglo-French tormentour , Old French tormenteor "torturer," agent noun from tormenter "to torture" (see torment (v.)).
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. Someone who torments.
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Tormentor is a single by the band Skinny Puppy from their album Too Dark Park .
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tormentor \Tor*ment"or\, n. One who, or that which, torments; one who inflicts penal anguish or tortures. --Jer. Taylor. Thoughts, my tormentors, armed with deadly stings. --Milton. (Agric.) An implement for reducing a stiff soil, resembling a harrow, but ...
Usage examples of tormentor.
With a thought, he commanded the doors to the aviary to close silently behind him as he followed his eccentric but benevolent tormentor.
Now she was Hushidh the Raveler, discussing the city of Basilica, not Shuya the schoolgirl, telling an ugly story about her tormentors.
Angrily she whirled around, flinging the hood back to her shoulders, and the bondsman cowered away, covering his head with his arms as if more afraid of her than any club his tormentor would use.
The boarding-house keeper boldly asserted that she could not afford better for the amount she had received, and there was truth in that, but she had no business to keep house and to become the tormentor of poor children who were thrown on her hands by stinginess, and who required to be properly fed.
Whereupon, with a serene and cheerful countenance, up rose the mighty form of Amyas Leigh, a head and shoulders above his tormentor, and that slate descended on the bald coxcomb of Sir Vindex Brimblecombe, with so shrewd a blow that slate and pate cracked at the same instant, and the poor pedagogue dropped to the floor, and lay for dead.
My vile tormentor, the monk, woke me at noon, and informed me with a triumphant joy that a very rich young man had been invited by his friends to supper, that he would be sure to play and to lose, and that it would be a good opportunity for me to retrieve my losses.
May the evil spirits, the evil eye, the evil tormentors, active and alive, be lossened, be annulled, may they depart and never return with their curse.
Victor suspended operations with the handkerchief to bend upon his tormentor a louring, distrustful stare.
Even GarTokk and the other Nomen were growling and snarling at their tormentors.
He was, fortunately, a complete master of the French and Italian languages, so that when the fury of his irritation would become too excessive for him to control, he would ease his spirits by castigating his tormentors with a consuming verbosity in those foreign tongues, which, had his companions understood a single word of that which he uttered, would have earned for him a beating that would have landed him within an inch of his life.
Unsure that the afflicted child had accurately named her tormentor, Putnam and Cheever devised a scheme to test her reliability.
Julie at last unfolded, in her rather scattery way, was this: Roxanna, when she had seen me strike Bruno with the axe, suddenly was made aware that she was in love with her tormentor.
Although this theory has long been exploded, and thrown upon the dustheap, it continues to be applied daily by the entire machinery of government, turning it into the most cruel and brutal tormentor of human life.
It was a wonderful sight to see the little man fixed there, having apparently realized that to move would be to run the risk of sudden death, while his black tormentor towered over him, and wrapped him round with the quick flashes of the axe.
Determined not to surrender to panic, she raised her head and caught her first full glimpse of her tormentor, a tall and bulky man whose faded clothes matched his features, giving him the washed-out appearance of an overexposed snapshot.