devourer

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devourer

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Inherited from Middle English devourere; equivalent to devour + -er.

noun devourers

One who devours. It is doubtful, whether we ought to ascribe any superior qualities to the more ancient Africans; for we find them represented […] as proud, lazy, deceitful, thievish, […] devourers of human flesh, and quaffers of human blood […]

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@misc{devourer_2026,
  title = {devourer},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/devourer},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}