Definition of "witchfinder" [witchfinder]

• A person employed to carry out witch-hunts and identify witches. (noun)

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• "While Richard Wilson as Gaius pulls out all the stops when he's tortured by a witchfinder, and when the witchfinder is the deliciously harsh looking Charles Dance, who seems like he brought his own costume from home, it's telly drama as rich and sweet as chocolate cheesecake."
• "Witchfinder General (1968) - Charged with hunting down witches in 17th-century England, royalist "witchfinder" Matthew Hopkins (Vincent Price) travels from village to village with his brutish assistant Stearne (Robert Russell), forcing confessions and torturing women who refuse to comply."
• "Their remit seems to have expanded somewhat as they become more akin to the medieval ‘witchfinder general’ becoming so full of themselves and what they believe they stand for."