Persecutrix

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A female persecutor. rare

    "...and Madame de la Perriere — cruel to me when I was a little thing, a child, at her school, is my persecutrix still."

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"...and Madame de la Perriere — cruel to me when I was a little thing, a child, at her school, is my persecutrix still."

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin persecūtrīx. By surface analysis, persecute + -trix.

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