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Definition of Extorters
1. extorter [n] - See also: extorter
Lexicographical Neighbors of Extorters
Literary usage of Extorters
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of English Poetry by William John Courthope (1903)
"You strict extorters that the poor oppress, And wrong the widow and the fatherless,
To leave your offspring rich (of others' good) In houses built of rapine ..."
2. On the Constitution of the Church and State According to the Idea of Each by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1839)
"It should be such, in short, that an orator might with strict historical propriety
introduce the framers and extorters of Magna Charta pleading to their ..."
3. The Revolution in Virginia by Hamilton James Eckenrode (1916)
"... taxes and draughts, and, in addition, were exposed to the depredations of the
enemy and of quartermasters and other official and unofficial extorters. ..."
4. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1918)
"Thus, money extorted by threats of a criminal prosecution from one of weak mind,
who, as a witness, had testified against the character of the extorters son ..."
5. Matthew Paris's English History: From the Year 1235 to 1273 by Matthew Paris, John Allen Giles (1853)
"... utterly ignorant of letters and the English tongue, altogether useless in
confessing and preaching, and not orderly or well formed in morals, extorters ..."
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