Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who bereaves or deprives another of something valued.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who bereaves.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Someone who
bereaves .
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Examples
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She made the man blest who had taken away her children, and enriched her bereaver with a present: and took away nothing to make up the slaughter of her sons save the reproach of ignorance and the loss of goods.
The Danish History, Books I-IX Grammaticus Saxo
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You [land] are a devourer of men, and have been a bereaver of your nation;
The World English Bible (WEB): Anonymous
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The same Achilles, the ruin of Troy, and the bereaver of myself, the same has destroyed thus many of thy brothers,
The Metamorphoses of Ovid Literally Translated into English Prose, with Copious Notes and Explanations 43 BC-18? Ovid 1847
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