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Scourger   Listen
noun
Scourger  n.  One who scourges or punishes; one who afflicts severely. "The West must own the scourger of the world."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Scourger" Quotes from Famous Books



... Philip, a scourger of young native Americans, 50 —commiserated (though not deserving it,) ...
— The Biglow Papers • James Russell Lowell

... degree and be entirely superior to fear. However, you need no Lycurgus to tell you; you can surely see for yourself that, if one of these men were captured in war, no tortures would wring a Spartan secret out of him; he would take his scourging with a smile, and try whether the scourger would not be ...
— Works, V3 • Lucian of Samosata



Words linked to "Scourger" :   scourge, torturer



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