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# persecutor

«persecutor» in Mova's school dictionary: **Someone who treats another person cruelly and unfairly…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (plural persecutors)

### meaning for a pupil

Someone who treats another person cruelly and unfairly again and again, to hurt or harm them. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/persecutor/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in tales the wicked persecutors chase and hurt the hero or the good people

### examples

- The poor girl ran from her persecutors. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/persecutor/#x1)
- The king's men were the persecutors of the kind old man. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/persecutor/#x2)
- Her persecutor followed her all the way home. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/persecutor/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths.

### In the corpora

- [Many are my persecutors and mine adversaries; yet have I not turned aside from Thy testimonies.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.2322/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «persecutor» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/persecutor/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.