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Scourger

noun
1.
A torturer who flogs or scourges (especially an official whose duty is to whip offenders).  Synonym: flogger.






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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



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