scourge
noun
a whip or lash, especially for the infliction of punishment or torture.
scourger
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a word derived from
scourge.
Example Sentences
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And it may be to the ian, constitutes himself the scourger of Vulgarity.
From Time Magazine Archive
"To Caiaphas and the Sanhedrin; to the Judgment Hall of Pilate; to the scourger and the cross if they have power."
From The Coming of the King by Bernie Babcock
He was a political pamphleteer, a scourger of public scamps, and a pictorial muck-raker of genius.
From Promenades of an Impressionist by James Huneker
There shall be given for a remedy the city of Claudius, which shall interpose the nurse of the scourger.
From Old English Chronicles by Various
Mrs. Haddon had a proper sense of her public duties, a due appreciation of the extent of Dick's wickedness, and a full knowledge of her own inefficiency as a scourger.
From The Gold-Stealers A Story of Waddy by Edward Dyson
