smite
verb (used with object)
to strike or hit hard, with or as with the hand, a stick, or other weapon.
smiter
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a word derived from
smite.
Example Sentences
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Besides, is it not written in the Holy Book that thou shouldst turn the other cheek to the smiter?
From Wild Justice: Stories of the South Seas by Lloyd Osbourne
He had indeed almost forgotten the episode, he had never speculated upon the consequences, and now they rose up and smote the smiter.
From The Four Feathers by A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley) Mason
He was turning in a very literal sense his cheek to the smiter.
From The Squire's Daughter by Silas K(itto) Hocking
I should not advise the smiter to reckon on it.
From Red Pottage by Mary Cholmondeley
Yet he fell far short of the Christian principle of turning to the smiter the other cheek.
From Benjamin Franklin by John T. (John Torrey) Morse
