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ˈchurch-robber
One who robs or plunders the or a church.
1535Coverdale Acts. xix. 37 Nether Church robbers ner blasphemers off youre goddesse. 1614Raleigh Hist. World ii. 460 Of her buriall there is no Monument, for she was a Church-robber. a1649Drummond of Hawthornden Jas. V, Wks. (1711) 101 King Henry was..a shameful and shameless adulterer, a publick and profest homicide, murtherer, a sacrilegious person, a church-robber. 1884Jessop in 19th Cent. Jan. 119 The monks were the greatest church-robbers that the world has ever known.
So church-robbing vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1565Jewel Def. Apol. (1611) 384 The Pope may neuer bee accused..it were as bad as Church-robbing, to reason, or mooue matter of any his doings. 1613R. C. Table Alph. (ed. 3) Sacrileage, Church-robbing. 1620J. Dyke Counterpoyson 57 The Church-robbing and Church-pilling couetousnesse of our dayes. |