witch-hunter
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- noun
- /ˈwɪtʃˌhʌntər/
- Literature
- In the village, the witch-hunter was feared for his harsh methods and swift judgments.
Examples
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He's a powerful human lawyer by day and the Magic Council's rogue witch hunter by night.
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Many innocent people suffered at the hands of the witch-hunter during that period.
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Our local neighborhood witch hunter.
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I mean all our friends are dead, and we almost got killed because our parents were witch hunters.
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I'm a witch hunter, not a doctor.
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You guys are direct descendants of these witch hunters.
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And you too, Mr. Dunaway, will become a witch hunter.
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For you see, the town elders sent forth a tribunal of witch hunters moments after Lilith kidnapped him.
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The witch hunter who entombed Renfro in 1692 was me ancestor.
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The zealous witch-hunter relentlessly pursued those who held different beliefs.
Synonyms
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A person who kills or punishes someone in a mob without a legal trial
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A person who says or writes false, hurtful things about someone
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A person who strongly criticizes or punishes someone
Antonyms
How Zealous
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Witch-hunter comes from the old practice of looking for and punishing 'witches', where witch means someone thought to use magic and hunter is a person who searches for someone. So today a witch-hunter is someone who eagerly looks for and attacks people because of their opinions.