despoiler

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despoiler

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From Middle English dispoyler, dispoylere, equivalent to despoil + -er.

noun despoilers

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.

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@misc{despoiler_2026,
  title = {despoiler},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/despoiler},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}