Torturer

Definitions

Someone who tortures.

Equivalents

Examples

“I play⟳ the torturer by ſmall and ſmall / To lengthen out the worſt that muſt be ſpoken: […]”

“My destruction might indeed arrive⟳ a few months sooner; but if my torturer should suspect⟳ that I postponed it, influenced by his menaces, he would surely find⟳ other, and perhaps more dreadful means of revenge.”

“The torturers of any form⟳ of life torture the life. In this they are not only abominators of form⟳, but haters of nature; and the violationist school is misozoic, life-hating; in continuation of that which it also is, misanthropic, or an enemy of mankind.”

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