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- noun Plural form of
vanquisher .
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Examples
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The few seniors on the jury were determined to give lessons in class and good sportsmanship to their younger vanquishers, especially Sash.
Tallulah Morehead: Survivor 21: Infants vs Senior Citizens: Fetuses Gone Wild! Tallulah Morehead 2010
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The few seniors on the jury were determined to give lessons in class and good sportsmanship to their younger vanquishers, especially Sash.
Tallulah Morehead: Survivor 21: Infants vs Senior Citizens: Fetuses Gone Wild! Tallulah Morehead 2010
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My point is that John Derbyshire is a twit for contending that the vanquishers, conquerers, and slavers are the ones with the problem, and not those who lost their land and/or were reduced to slavery.
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He squinted again for a single second and saw the open doorway filling with people, as the survivors of the battle came out onto the front steps to face their vanquishers and see the truth of Harry's death for themselves.
Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows Rowling, J. K. 2007
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He waited while the sullen eyes of the subjugated scrutinized their vanquishers.
The Chronicles of Riddick Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2004
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This, forsooth, is the way that the mares couple with the vanquishers of their mates; for brute beasts are naturally incited to pair indiscriminately; and it would seem that thou, like them, hast clean forgot thy first husband.
The Danish History, Books I-IX Grammaticus Saxo
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They are vanquishers of the very gods, the Danavas and the Gandharvas.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 2 Books 4, 5, 6 and 7 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli
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Now military governments, established for an indefinite period, would have offered no security for the early suppression of discontent, would have divided the people into the vanquishers and the vanquished, and would have envenomed hatred rather than have restored affection.
State of the Union Address (1790-2001) United States. Presidents.
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The men who had so gloriously led to victory now found themselves stranded and in a strange position -- the vanquishers at the mercy of the vanquished!
South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 2 (of 6) From the Commencement of the War to the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899 Louis Creswicke
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But for our vanquishers it will not be enough to exact an unheard-of enormous contribution and to tear up our western borderlands.
Bolshevism The Enemy of Political and Industrial Democracy John Spargo 1921
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