What's the difference between persecutor and tormenter?
Persecutor
Definition:
(n.) One who persecutes, or harasses.
Example Sentences:
(1) In these cases there is also a need for splitting and projection of sadistic superego components, in order to provide a corporeity to the persecutor by placing it outside.
(2) Her persecutors discussed how best to fulfil the aim of driving “SJWs” from gaming while maintaining the pretence that the campaign was about corruption.
(3) Worst of all, by appeasing their persecutors it betrays the truly heroic gay Christians of Africa who stand up for justice and truth at risk of their lives.
(4) The risk of refoulement – the return of refugees with a right to protection to their persecutors – is increased, thus flouting the fundamental obligation under the refugee convention.
(5) Imaginary grievances, accusations based on delusional ideation, and irrational vindictiveness toward imagined persecutors may find full expression in any number of legal contexts.
(6) Justice is also meant to provide a measure of solace for the survivors and victims, a sense that their suffering has been heard and understood, with penal consequences for their persecutors.
(7) There was an excess of women who reported co-objects of persecution, and who personally knew their persecutors, nearly always men.
(8) Heath was a buffoonish ninny, and Churchill a "war criminal, mass murderer and persecutor of PG Wodehouse".
(9) It would be "cataclysmic in geopolitical terms", he ranted to his American audience; "the dictators, the persecutors, the oppressors, the annexers, the aggressors and the adventurers around the planet" would be handed the greatest gift imaginable.
(10) The Australian Greens' leader, Christine Milne , said that handing the asylum seekers to the Sri Lankan authorities in this manner was akin to "sending the persecuted back to the persecutors".
(11) What the government’s decision today means is that a group of vulnerable men, women and children will not be sent back to their persecutors in Sri Lanka and I want to take a moment to thank the minister and the prime minister for showing some compassion to these people,” said George Newhouse, a lawyer who brought the case.
(12) Today, they have zero access.“To know what it is like in Yarmouk,” one of the camp’s residents is quoted as saying on the UNRWA website, “turn off your electricity, water, heating, eat once a day, live in the dark.” Their plight should matter to us all – regardless of whether their persecutors happen to be Israelis, Syrians, Egyptians or, for that matter, fellow Palestinians (Palestinian Authority security forces, after all, have been shooting and beating unarmed Palestinian protesters for several years now).
(13) With a frightful outpouring of obscenity and blasphemy, he called on the earth to gape and swallow his persecutors...” Dawes, by condemning the pointless and arbitrary colonial order that forces him to terrorise one of his fellows, is the novel’s hero.
(14) The most common alter personalities were a child personality (86.0%), a personality of a different age (84.5%), a protector personality (84.0%), and a persecutor personality (84.0%).
(15) Amid further reports that the Sri Lankan navy may have dispatched a vessel to collect asylum seekers from Australian naval authorities, Milne said that any such transfer, if it happened, would be tantamount to “our government sending the persecuted back to the persecutors in Sri Lanka”.
(16) What we’ve agreed today is essentially the orders that we were seeking – that they not be returned to Sri Lanka and to their persecutors but the government is still able to deal with them in accordance with the law.” The case is expected to resume again on Friday of next week for directions and is likely to culminate in a hearing before the full bench of the high court.
(17) But what is the government’s legal justification for returning asylum seekers to their persecutors?
(18) "Worst of all, by appeasing their persecutors it betrays the truly heroic gay Christians of Africa who stand up for justice and truth at risk of their lives.
(19) Some of Liang's persecutors were forced into taking part, she says; others were jealous of his success.
(20) Other behaviours, such as fleeing or barricading to avoid delusional persecutors, were also consistent with congruence of mood and delusions.
Tormenter
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, torments; a tormentor.
(n.) An executioner.
Example Sentences:
(1) Her story is an incredible tale of triumph over tragedy: a tormented childhood during China's Cultural Revolution, detention and forced exile after exposing female infanticide – then glittering success as the head of a major US technology firm.
(2) "It is difficult to imagine the torment experienced by the vulnerable victims of crimes such as these.
(3) While his citizens were being beaten and tormented in illegal detention, spokesmen for the then prime minister, Tony Blair, declared: "The Italian police had a difficult job to do.
(4) Yet the removal of two in-form goalscorers who were tormenting West Ham – first Aaron Lennon and then Lukaku – afforded the visitors the initiative.
(5) Through small and large acts of deprivation and destruction we follow the process: the removal of hope, of dignity, of luxury, of necessity, of self; the reduction of a man to a hoarder of grey slabs of bread and the scrapings of a soup bowl (wonderfully told all this, with a novelist's gift for detail and sometimes very nearly comic surprise), to the confinement of a narrow bed – in which there is "not even any room to be afraid" – with a stranger who doesn't speak your language, to the cruel illogicality of hating a fellow victim of oppression more than you hate the oppressor himself – one torment following another, and even the bleak comfort of thinking you might have touched rock bottom denied you as, when the most immediate cause of a particular stress comes to an end, "you are grievously amazed to see that another one lies behind; and in reality a whole series of others".
(6) Corner to USA though... 1.33am BST 20 mins More tempo in the American play now, but Belgium intercept again, and Mirallas torments them down the Belgian right flank before hitting a low cross in that's hoofed safely clear.
(7) It cannot be right that anyone who has found the courage to escape their abusive or violent partner should be subjected to the stress and torment of being confronted and interrogated by them in any court.” Research by charity Women’s Aid suggests a quarter of women in family court proceedings have been cross-examined by an abusive former partner.
(8) Shin Dong-hyuk said he was tormented to see his father alive and speaking in the video released by Pyongyang in October.
(9) In a torment of frustration, Mohammed stood outside the governor's and threw a can of petrol over himself.
(10) More than a quarter of hospital beds are occupied by people with dementia (no surprise to anyone who has been in hospital recently, where wards are full of men and women in great anxiety and torment) and they tend to stay for longer-than-average periods of time.
(11) Senator Jack Reed, a Democrat from Rhode Island whose bipartisan bill will ensure a three-month extension of the federal benefits program, told the Guardian the measure would stimulate the economy and alleviate what he called the “mental torment” suffered by those long-term unemployed who now feel abandoned.
(12) It was only his inflexible determination, the quality that had made him a great general, that mastered the torments of ill-health – sleepless nights, fear of dying – to articulate his account for a devoted American audience.
(13) The man who devised these torments has a passing resemblance to El Greco's emaciated saints.
(14) Arsenal had no riposte to the blue and white striped waves that tormented them all evening.
(15) Father Michael, so brilliantly played by Sean Bean , was tormented by one such moment: his decision not to answer the phone to Helen Oyenusi (Muna Otaru) when she called to ask that he calm down her son.
(16) Suárez played as through affronted by the suggestion he might have fitness issues, tormenting England’s defence on a night that finished as a personal ordeal for Steven Gerrard.
(17) So often did John torment his elder brother – because, grouchy alcoholic prick that he was, he hated to acknowledge a debt – one has to wonder if he cast Francis in a minor part in Young Mr Lincoln simply to let him witness, day after day, his own signature role being forever obliterated by Henry Fonda's entrancing new reading.
(18) Shawcross, however, maintains there was no bad intent and said for that reason he has not been tormenting himself about the moment he collided with Ramsey's right leg and left the teenager writhing in agony.
(19) Since his withdrawal from the music scene, Shields has earned a reputation as the latter-day Brian Wilson, a tormented genius unable to produce a successor to Loveless, the Pet Sounds of UK avant-rock.
(20) Adding to the torment for Rodgers was a 120-minute performance before hosting Manchester City in the Premier League on Sunday at noon.