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Definition of Despoilers
1. despoiler [n] - See also: despoiler
Lexicographical Neighbors of Despoilers
Literary usage of Despoilers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Matthew Paris's English History: From the Year 1235 to 1273 by Matthew Paris, John Allen Giles (1852)
"... humbly praying him to spare his anger, and order his despoilers to stop, that
they might at once, according to his precept and wish, having God before ..."
2. Psychopathia Sexualis, with Especial Reference to the Antipathic Sexual by Richard Krafft-Ebing (1922)
"... several cities in the United States were troubled by such hair-despoilers.
(b) The Fetich is an Article of Female Attire. ..."
3. Feudal England: Historical Studies on the XIth and XIIth Centuries, by J. H by John Horace Round (1895)
"ELY AND HER despoilers (1072-75) THE elaborate record of this trial is only found,
I believe, in the Trinity College (Cambridge) MS., O. 2, 1 (fos. ..."
4. Psychopathia Sexualis: With Especial Reference to the Antipathic Sexual by Richard Krafft-Ebing (1906)
"... several cities in the United States were troubled by such hair-despoilers.
(b) The Fetich is an Article of ..."
5. Historic and Monumental Rome: A Handbook for the Students of Classical and by Charles Isidore Hemans (1874)
"It surprises us still more to find such an enlightened Pope as Benedict XIV.
among the despoilers of the Pantheon ; for it was by him that the lofty attics ..."
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