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1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Death brynger, or that whiche bryngeth or causeth death,..mortifer.

1714 J. H. Thomson in Cloud of Witnesses App. 553 Andrew refused to do so, and courageously told them he could look his death bringers in the face without fear, and that he had done nothing whereof he was ashamed.

1876 Dublin Univ. Mag. Apr. 441 Tell us, O! Fate the death-bringer, whither, O! whither are we Drifting away on the waters of this desolate lonely sea.

1971 Jrnl. Narr. Technique 1 55 The ranges of imagery now associated with the elderly Warley qualify him to act as a death figure and as a death-bringer to his opposite number.

2012 N.Z. Herald (Nexis) 14 Sept. Yet others argue that active euthanasia changes the nature of doctors—from being life-savers and healers to being possible death bringers.