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tormentors

[tawr-men-ter, tawr-men-]

noun

a person or thing that torments.

Theater. a curtain or framed structure behind the proscenium at both sides of the stage, for screening the wings from the audience. Compare teaser (def. 2).

Also, tor·ment·er.

Origin:
1250–1300; Middle English tormento(u)r < Anglo-French; Old French tormenteor. See torment, -or²

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"The Jesuits were quite balked by those Indians who, being burned at the stake, suggested new modes of tortures to their tormentors. Being superior to physical suffering, it sometimes chanced that they were superior to any consolation which the missionaries could offer; and the law to do as you would be done by fell with less persuasiveness on the ears of those who, for their part, did not care how they were done by, who loved their enemies after a new fashion, and came very near freely forgiving them all they did."

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