A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1983 (DOST Vol. V).
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Quotation dates: 1558-1566
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Persecutrix, n. [L. persecūtrix, fem. of persecūtor Persecuto(u)r(e n. Cf. 19th c. Eng. (1816).] A female persecutor. —1558-66 Knox I. 244.
Jesabel … a cruell persecutrix of Goddis people