persecutrix

English

Noun

persecutrix (plural persecutrices)

1. (rare) A female persecutor.

   Synonym: persecutress

   • 1868, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, A Lost Name:

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

   • 1861, Ellis Cornelia Knight, Autobiography of Miss Cornelia Knight:

     She is the grand-daughter of poor Caroline Matilda, and he the grandson of her persecutrix, the Dowager Queen.