Thesaurus:executioner

English

Noun

Sense: an official person who carries out the capital punishment of a criminal

Synonyms
  • carnifex (historical)
  • deathsman (obsolete)
  • doomsman (rare)
  • executioner
  • executor (obsolete)
  • halseman (obsolete)
  • Jack Ketch
  • lockman (Scotland, archaic)
  • manqueller (obsolete)
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Further reading

  • 165. “destroyer” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
  • 361. “killing” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
  • “executioner” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.
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