Meaning of Despoiler | Babel Free

Definitions

One who despoils; one who strips by force; a plunderer.

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“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.”

“[…] he, who had been the untamable despoiler of their daughters, and thief of their women, their walking prince of darkness!”

“1985, Stephen Jay Gould, The Flamingo's Smile⟳: Reflections in Natural History, New York: Norton, 1987, Chapter 1, Other despoilers of our natural heritage killed bison with even greater abandon, removed the tongue only (considered a great delicacy in some quarters), and left the rest⟳ of the carcass to rot.”

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