英语词汇“witchfinder general”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

Witchfinder General n. (also with lower-case initials) (a) (a title for) a high-ranking witchfinder (in sense 1; see note); (b) depreciative (a mock title for) a person who relentlessly seeks out and persecutes people for (supposed) wrongdoings, inadequacies, etc. (cf. witch-hunter n. 2).In sense (a) originally as the title assumed by Matthew Hopkins, 17th-cent. English witchfinder (see quot. 1647); cf. general adj. 8a.

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1647 M. Hopkins Discov. of Witches (frontispiece) Matthew Hopkins, Witch Finder Generall.

1849 H. Mayhew & A. S. Mayhew Magic of Kindness xiii. 108 The Chief of the Council bade the guard go and summon before them the Witch-Finder-General.

1954 N.Y. Times 4 June 18/4 We have seen many self-appointed Witch Finder Generals on our scene. We have seen them bring processes of law into disrepute by substituting the tactics of the smear for the fair trial.

1968 Irish Times 26 Nov. 16/4 Mr. Childers has now apparently acquired the position as Witchfinder General for the outdated and discredited Fianna Fail regime.

2000 Independent on Sunday 2 Apr. i. 3/3 Paganism is enjoying a modern-day revival some 500 years after the witchfinder general first began killing suspected witches.

2005 Amer. Prospect (Nexis) Oct. 41 The emboldened medium [of TV] would expose and topple the most fearsome Communist-hunter of all, America's grand inquisitor and witch-finder general, Senator Joseph R. McCarthy.

单词	witchfinder general
释义	> as lemmas Witchfinder General Witchfinder General n. (also with lower-case initials) (a) (a title for) a high-ranking witchfinder (in sense 1; see note); (b) depreciative (a mock title for) a person who relentlessly seeks out and persecutes people for (supposed) wrongdoings, inadequacies, etc. (cf. witch-hunter n. 2).In sense (a) originally as the title assumed by Matthew Hopkins, 17th-cent. English witchfinder (see quot. 1647); cf. general adj. 8a. ΚΠ 1647 M. Hopkins Discov. of Witches (frontispiece) Matthew Hopkins, Witch Finder Generall. 1849 H. Mayhew & A. S. Mayhew Magic of Kindness xiii. 108 The Chief of the Council bade the guard go and summon before them the Witch-Finder-General. 1954 N.Y. Times 4 June 18/4 We have seen many self-appointed Witch Finder Generals on our scene. We have seen them bring processes of law into disrepute by substituting the tactics of the smear for the fair trial. 1968 Irish Times 26 Nov. 16/4 Mr. Childers has now apparently acquired the position as Witchfinder General for the outdated and discredited Fianna Fail regime. 2000 Independent on Sunday 2 Apr. i. 3/3 Paganism is enjoying a modern-day revival some 500 years after the witchfinder general first began killing suspected witches. 2005 Amer. Prospect (Nexis) Oct. 41 The emboldened medium [of TV] would expose and topple the most fearsome Communist-hunter of all, America's grand inquisitor and witch-finder general, Senator Joseph R. McCarthy. extracted from witchfindern. < as lemmas
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