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Despoiler

noun

Someone who takes spoils or plunder (as in war). Synonyms: freebooter, looter, pillager, plunderer, raider, spoiler.

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... upon the jury to inflict on the Lothario a verdict that would not only insure comfort to the poor little woman whose home had been destroyed, but would also be severe enough to make even a multimillionaire realize and remember that the despoiler of the American home cannot continue on his nefarious ...

— We Can't Have Everything • Rupert Hughes

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... departed with his rescuers, but his eyes flashed the vengeance he would take should he meet his despoiler again. ...

— Dave Darrin on Mediterranean Service - or, With Dan Dalzell on European Duty • H. Irving Hancock

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... "comrades! the moment has come to fight the enemy, against whom all our souls are filled with hatred—the despoiler of thrones, who has plunged our fatherland into such distress; who has trampled under foot all the rights of man; to whom no treaty, no peace is sacred, and who is only waiting for an opportunity utterly to destroy the constitution ...

— Napoleon and the Queen of Prussia • L. Muhlbach

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... write to Elizabeth Boyd, offering her one-half of the late Ira Nutcombe's money. He had had time during the voyage to think the whole matter over, and this seemed to him the only possible course. He could not keep it all. He would feel like the despoiler of the widow and the orphan. Nor would it be fair to Claire to give it all up. If he halved the ...

— Uneasy Money • P.G. Wodehouse

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... He was a common man, Dionysius of Alexandria was entreated to come to the synod. But being unable to come on account of age and physical weakness, he gave his opinion on the subject under consideration by a letter. But the other pastors of the churches assembled from all directions, as against a despoiler of the flock of Christ, all making haste to ...

— A Source Book for Ancient Church History • Joseph Cullen Ayer, Jr., Ph.D.

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