Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who pillages or plunders by open violence; a plunderer.
Wiktionary
- n. A person who pillages
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. One who pillages.
WordNet 3.0
- n. someone who takes spoils or plunder (as in war)
Examples
“Mrs. Douaoui says one French journalist who she prefers not to mention by name wrote at the top of his of his obituary "the pillager of Africa is dead.”
“September 19, 2009 at 7:38 am pillager=burglar Yes?”
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““No, by Saint Mary,” said another; “he is a follower of the arch-fiend and ennobled clown Halbert Glendinning, who takes the style of Avenel — once a church-vassal, now a pillager of the church.””
“He's got the right," said Picasso, a shameless pillager of African imagery, "he's a Negro.”
“You are a rapist and a pillager and a thief of the working man's rights," it read, "and may you rot in hell.”
“His partner Urman was a Tatar built round and hard, with the broad smile of a successful pillager.”
Stalin's Ghost
“Shall I welcome this man with open arms and allow myself to become an abettor - an enabler - of the robber, rapist and pillager?”
“As the pillager wipes his filthy parts after the rape he kills his victims as well as my sons.”
“As I turn the other cheek the pillager has raped my daughters and my wife.”
“I was very well assured that at Deal no less than ten guineas was required, and paid by the supercargo of an Indiaman, for carrying him on board two miles from the shore when she was just ready to sail; so that his necessity, as his pillager well understood, was absolute.”
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