Despoiler
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 One who despoils; one who strips by force; a plunderer.
"A wild and unreasoning craving for vengeance took possession of Ferris’s soul. Passing by the real despoiler of Angela’s peace, it clamoured like an evil spirit against the man from whom he had received benefits, which his distorted imagination construed into insults."
- 2 someone who takes spoils or plunder (as in war) wordnet
Example
More examples"A wild and unreasoning craving for vengeance took possession of Ferris’s soul. Passing by the real despoiler of Angela’s peace, it clamoured like an evil spirit against the man from whom he had received benefits, which his distorted imagination construed into insults."
Etymology
From Middle English dispoyler, dispoylere, equivalent to despoil + -er.
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