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Definition of Punisher
1. n. One who inflicts punishment.
Definition of Punisher
1. Noun. One who punishes. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Punisher
1. one that punishes [n -S] - See also: punishes
Lexicographical Neighbors of Punisher
Literary usage of Punisher
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. London: Being an Accurate History and Description of the British Metropolis by David Hughson (1809)
"This Worthy, of old honest Principles, ami the established religion, the most
lenient punisher of the criminal, impartial, easy, se- rions, affable, ..."
2. The True Intellectual System of the Universe: Wherein All the Reason and by Ralph Cudworth, Johann Lorenz Mosheim (1845)
"... and as the punisher of the violation thereof, is the very foundation of all
civil sovereignty: for pacts and covenants (into which some would resolve ..."
3. The Standard First[-fifth] Reader by Epes Sargent (1857)
"... in his ear, " Re-mem'ber the whip-lash !" He does not boast as much as he did.
LVIII. — PRIDE ITS OWN punisher. (44, 72, 77, 85, 246, 277, ..."
4. The Kafir, the Hottentot, and the Frontier Farmer by Nathaniel James Merriman (1854)
"... not always on good terms with his resident Missionary, but a punisher of crime
when detected, and one that would not wink at offenders. ..."
5. Institutes of Natural Law: Being the Substance of a Course of Lectures on by Thomas Rutherforth (1832)
"The society, therefore, which has engaged by the social compact to protect him,
is obliged to stop the punisher from proceeding, and to take the matter into ..."
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