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despoiler|dɪˈspɔɪlə(r)|
[f. despoil v. + -er1. Cf. OF. despoilleur.]
One who despoils; a plunderer, spoiler.
1467E.E. Gilds 389 Pillours, Robbers, dispoylers. 1592W. Wyrley Armorie 151 Dispoiler of my worldly pleasaunce. 1611Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. ix. ii. §57, I..forbid that the Body of my dispoiler, be covered in my Earth. 1812Byron Ch. Har. ii. lxxvi, They may lay your proud despoilers low. 1848Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. 186 The despoilers and the despoiled had for the most part been rebels alike. 1855Singleton Virgil II. 418 A less merciful despoiler of floral beauties. |