Executioner is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for EXECUTIONER in dictionary:

NOUN:
• one who executes
• an official who carries out a sentence of death on a condemned person.
• One who executes; an executer.
• One who puts to death in conformity to legal warrant, as a hangman.
• an official who inflicts capital punishment in pursuit of a warrant
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• one who executes; one who puts to death

Words related to EXECUTIONER

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Words that contain EXECUTIONER

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How to use EXECUTIONER in a sentence

• Your brother was murdered, your mother driven to insanity, and society has prosecuted neither the assassin nor the executioner.
• Nitetis resolved to swallow a poisonous ointment for the complexion directly the executioner should draw near her.
• God, for one of those inscrutable purposes which set human intelligence at defiance, has made him a common executioner, but the curse has not extended to his nature.
• The executioner then dealt a heavy blow over each hollow with a square iron bar, about two inches broad and rounded at the handle, thus breaking each limb in two places.
• To the chief executioner I wrote cheerfully granting the permission he sought, and suggesting that the loan of a well-caparisoned horse would not be amiss.
• It is not known whether he said this in order to instruct his executioner or to punish him, for perhaps, as he leapt, the bulk of the huge body would have crushed him.
• My next care was in regard to the scene I should choose, as the retreat of that life which I had just saved from the grasp of the executioner.
• It was not so with Sir Robert, who, being himself a magistrate, might be said to have been in the position at once of judge and executioner.
• The condition was agreed to with eagerness, and a few days later the victim and his executioner proceeded together to the mine.
• Having granted herself a lease of life till the day after her infidelity, the victim might surely play awhile with the executioner.
• If the clerk is reading the appeal, the executioner will no doubt have orders for the execution.
• He went on and on till at last, as a prisoner in Rome, he laid his head on the block of the executioner and was slain.
• I felt like a victim upon the rack, whilst he, the executioner, held the cords.
• QUEEN The King commands it, you are but executioner.
• The order for execution addressed by Fouquier Tinville to the executioner has been seen by several persons now living.
• Cecilia I would offer my neck to the sword of the executioner, and like Joan of Arc I would murmur the name of Jesus at the stake.
• Many of them saved themselves by concealment, others by flight, while many fell by their own hands, or were cut off by the axe of the executioner.
• Kotoshikin terminated a life of strange vicissitudes by perishing at the hands of the public executioner at Stockholm, about 1669.
• The Waldensians, who had lately been driven out of Piedmont, and had sought a shelter in the Calabrian territory, were hunted down and given over to the executioner.
• Feng was sentenced to slow death, and strips were torn one by one from his body by the executioner.
• The dignity attached to the military profession, and the indignity of the office of public executioner, are capricious, arbitrary, and sentimental.
• They were walking, the executioner before them, whilst fifty archers formed a hedge on their right and their left.
• But that did not give her the right to be his executioner.
• He failed, however, to see any signs of him, and turning to the executioner, signified by a gesture that he was ready.
• I will refrain from placing you in the hands of the public executioner, though you richly deserve it.
• Several of them betrayed, by the marks of infamy branded on their faces, or by the loss of ears, that they had passed through the hands of the public executioner.
• He will be a policeman or robber or judge or executioner, just as the exigencies of the game demand.
• Thus is it ever writhing under the sense of being its own executioner.
• TRIEU, the Public Executioner to the Emperor of AUSTRIA, has just been married.

Similar words containing ECUTION without suffix er and without prefix ex

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