Definition of Torturers

1. Noun. (plural of torturer) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Torturers

1. torturer [n] - See also: torturer

Lexicographical Neighbors of Torturers

tortuosity
tortuous
tortuous aorta
tortuously
tortuousness
tortuousnesses
torturable
torture
torture chamber
torture stake
torture stakes
tortured
torturedly
torturedness
torturer
torturers (current term)
tortures
torturesome
torturess
torturesses
torturest
tortureth
torturing
torturingly
torturings
torturous
torturously
toruffle
torula
torulae

Literary usage of Torturers

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Our Wild Indians: Thirty-three Years Personal Experience Among the Red Men by Richard Irving Dodge (1884)
"The Indian's Chief Pleasure in Life — Relishing the Agony of a Victim — Cruelty to Animals — Indian Women in the Role of torturers — Hellish Ingenuity ..."

2. The Inhabitants of the Philippines by Frederic Henry Read Sawyer (1900)
"... pact of Biak-na-Bato—The 74th Regiment joins the insurgents—The massacre of the Calle Camba—Amnesty for torturers—Torture in other countries. ..."

3. Sir Harry Parkes in China by Stanley Lane-Poole (1901)
"... and subjected to a long and severe examination, in which the argument of threats and the indignities of the torturers were used without scruple. ..."

4. The Works of William Robertson, D.D.: To which is Prefixed an Account of the by William Robertson, Dugald Stewart (1827)
"... r~, BOOK hands of his torturers, and prolonged a life reserved v. for new indignities and sufferings.4 ..."

5. A Cyclopædic Dictionary of the Mang'anja Language Spoken in British Central by David Clement Ruffelle Scott (1892)
"Then the trial by these torturers begins, the counts made : he is knocked down, divided limb from ..."

6. Hebraic Literature: Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala by Maurice Henry Harris (1901)
"The torturers tore his flesh with pointed cards, yet still he repeated, " The Lord is one." "Always did I say," he continued, "that ( with all thy soul/ ..."

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