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Myrmidon   Listen
noun
Myrmidon  n.  
1.
One of a fierce tribe or troop who accompanied Achilles, their king, to the Trojan war.
2.
A soldier or a subordinate civil officer who executes cruel orders of a superior without protest or pity; sometimes applied to bailiffs, constables, etc. "With unabated ardor the vindictive man of law and his myrmidons pressed forward."





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... a ministerial myrmidon paralyzed his brilliant intellect, and he was not allowed to participate in the scenes of the Revolution which ensued. Just as the white banner of peace began to wave over his country, after a struggle of twenty years to which he gave the first impulse, an electric ...
— Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851 • Various


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