Definitions
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- noun someone who identifies and punishes people for their opinions
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Examples
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So this is one of those things where an evangelical church has somebody come visit and badmouth his homeland, like that witch-hunter who put a force-field around Sarah Palin?
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Looking at the colonial-style hat, cloak and garments, Levi was reminded of the terror of Salem — Reverend Cotton Mather, scientist, theologian, and witch-hunter.
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So this is one of those things where an evangelical church has somebody come visit and badmouth his homeland, like that witch-hunter who put a force-field around Sarah Palin?
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I'm no witch-hunter, and I can believe that everyone scrambled to cover their own mistakes, as he says ... but it's sad to see evidence of such aloof attitudes toward human life.
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The witch-hunter joins in so as to dissociate himself from the victim, out of fear of being seen and treated like that himself.
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Plus, it's probably lots of fun to be a witch-hunter.
An Historic Tidbit 2007
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Palin has so little discernment that she allowed a witch-hunter to lay hands on her.
Evan Derkacz: Witches, Fine... But Does Sarah Palin Believe in Religious Tolerance? 2008
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And in some strange backward reverso-rhetorical deconstructionist logic, when we read 'witch-hunter' over and over in connection with Sarah Palin we begin to think of her as the hunted witch.
Evan Derkacz: Witches, Fine... But Does Sarah Palin Believe in Religious Tolerance? 2008
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The most notorious witch-hunter of all time was probably Prince-Bishop Johann Georg II of Bamburg.
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Well, two nights ago Michelle Bachman, the Republican Minnesotan of extreme evangelical bent, used the words that Sarah Palin, the Republican Alaskan who has been declared 'annointed' to head the country by a Kenyan witch-hunter preacher, hadn't yet dared to utter.
Anti American 2008
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