torturer

Definition

Someone who tortures.

Etymology

From torture + -er.

Example Sentences

• "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."