Executioner
noun
A person whose job is to kill people who have been sentenced to death.
The executioner took the prisoner to the gallows for his sentence.
Often appears as...
- public executioner
- state executioner
noun
A tool, device, system, or person that carries out a task, especially one that is unpleasant or difficult.
In this play, fate is the executioner of the hero's dreams.
Often appears as...
- executioner of duties
- executioner of tasks
Usage tips
Literary
noun
A person whose job is to kill people who have been sentenced to death.
The executioner took the prisoner to the gallows for his sentence.
Often appears as...
- public executioner
- state executioner
noun
A tool, device, system, or person that carries out a task, especially one that is unpleasant or difficult.
In this play, fate is the executioner of the hero's dreams.
Often appears as...
- executioner of duties
- executioner of tasks
Usage tips
Literary
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Historical Context
The term can evoke historical methods of capital punishment, such as beheading or hanging.
The executioner sharpened his axe, preparing for the beheading.
Pro Tip 2/3Job Specificity
Executioner refers specifically to a person appointed to carry out death sentences, not other jobs.
Despite distaste for his job, the executioner fulfilled his grim duties.
Pro Tip 3/3Negative Connotation
The word often carries a negative connotation, implying a grim or dark aspect of the role.
In the movie, the executioner was portrayed as a cold-hearted individual.
Pro Tip 1/3Historical Context
The term can evoke historical methods of capital punishment, such as beheading or hanging.
The executioner sharpened his axe, preparing for the beheading.
Pro Tip 2/3Job Specificity
Executioner refers specifically to a person appointed to carry out death sentences, not other jobs.
Despite distaste for his job, the executioner fulfilled his grim duties.
Pro Tip 3/3Negative Connotation
The word often carries a negative connotation, implying a grim or dark aspect of the role.
In the movie, the executioner was portrayed as a cold-hearted individual.
Pro Tip 1/3Historical Context
The term can evoke historical methods of capital punishment, such as beheading or hanging.
The executioner sharpened his axe, preparing for the beheading.
Pro Tip 2/3Job Specificity
Executioner refers specifically to a person appointed to carry out death sentences, not other jobs.
Despite distaste for his job, the executioner fulfilled his grim duties.
Pro Tip 3/3Negative Connotation
The word often carries a negative connotation, implying a grim or dark aspect of the role.
In the movie, the executioner was portrayed as a cold-hearted individual.
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The 3,000-year history...
to kind of hide themselves when they were going to meet their lovers. And then, of course, there's the legend, there's fantasy. There's the image of the hoodie connected to the grim reaper. There's the image of the hoodie connected to the executioner. So there's the dark side of the hoodie.
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Brutal Gameplay PIPE When...
to experience what the ancients called a beautiful death not to cringe not to shrink from the moment that they knew that they're going to die but rather to bear their neck to the executioner for the other gladiator who is going to kill
Video examples
The 3,000-year history...
to kind of hide themselves when they were going to meet their lovers. And then, of course, there's the legend, there's fantasy. There's the image of the hoodie connected to the grim reaper. There's the image of the hoodie connected to the executioner. So there's the dark side of the hoodie.
Video examples
Brutal Gameplay PIPE When...
to experience what the ancients called a beautiful death not to cringe not to shrink from the moment that they knew that they're going to die but rather to bear their neck to the executioner for the other gladiator who is going to kill
Example 1 of 2
Quote examples
Sergei Lavrov
Russian Diplomat
I very much hope that the United States will finally... realise that they can no longer act as the prosecutor, the judge, and the executioner in every part of the world and that they need to cooperate to resolve issues.
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Fidel Castro
Statesman
Marx and Engels never talked about murdering the bourgeois. According to the old bourgeois concept, the judges were the ones who judged, and the executioners were the ones who executed.
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Jose Rizal
Filipino Writer
The people no longer has confidence in its former protectors, now its exploiters and executioners. The masks have fallen.
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Justin Gatlin
American Athlete
I think people need to stop looking at trying to be the judge, the jury and executioner and let the system do its job.
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Tomas Transtromer
Swedish Writer
The language marches in step with the executioners. Therefore we must get a new language.
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Marlon Brando
American Actor
If we are not our brother's keeper, at least let us not be his executioner.
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Charles Baudelaire
French Poet
It would perhaps be nice to be alternately the victim and the executioner.
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John Donne
British Poet
But I do nothing upon myself, and yet I am my own executioner.
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Jean-Paul Sartre
French Philosopher
I hate victims who respect their executioners.
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John Ford
American Director
Revenge proves its own executioner.
Quote examples
Sergei Lavrov
Russian Diplomat
I very much hope that the United States will finally... realise that they can no longer act as the prosecutor, the judge, and the executioner in every part of the world and that they need to cooperate to resolve issues.
Quote examples
Fidel Castro
Statesman
Marx and Engels never talked about murdering the bourgeois. According to the old bourgeois concept, the judges were the ones who judged, and the executioners were the ones who executed.
Quote examples
Jose Rizal
Filipino Writer
The people no longer has confidence in its former protectors, now its exploiters and executioners. The masks have fallen.
Quote examples
Justin Gatlin
American Athlete
I think people need to stop looking at trying to be the judge, the jury and executioner and let the system do its job.
Quote examples
Tomas Transtromer
Swedish Writer
The language marches in step with the executioners. Therefore we must get a new language.
Quote examples
Marlon Brando
American Actor
If we are not our brother's keeper, at least let us not be his executioner.
Quote examples
Charles Baudelaire
French Poet
It would perhaps be nice to be alternately the victim and the executioner.
Quote examples
John Donne
British Poet
But I do nothing upon myself, and yet I am my own executioner.
Quote examples
Jean-Paul Sartre
French Philosopher
I hate victims who respect their executioners.
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John Ford
American Director
Revenge proves its own executioner.
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