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  • noun Plural form of perturbator.

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Examples

  • Their oppressions, and seductions, and debaucheries, are the theme of many an angry verse; and the indignation and abhorrence of the reader is relentlessly conjured up against those perturbators of society, and scourges of mankind.

    Famous Reviews R. Brimley Johnson 1899

  • They were one and all "evil companions;" they were wicked Papists; they were perturbators of the peace of our Sovereign Lady the Queen; hanging was a luxury beyond their deserts.

    Clare Avery A Story of the Spanish Armada Emily Sarah Holt 1864

  • She devoted literally her entire existence to it, living in the confidence and intimacy of the Vendômes and other noble perturbators of the hour.

    Political Women (Vol. 1 of 2) Sutherland Menzies 1861

  • "That such perturbators of the general quiet are to be executed, to wit: the men with the sword and the women to be buried alive, if they do not persist in their errors; if they do persist in them, then they are to be executed with fire; all their property in both cases being confiscated to the crown."

    The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Volume 05: 1559-60 John Lothrop Motley 1845

  • "That such perturbators of the general quiet are to be executed, to wit: the men with the sword and the women to be buried alive, if they do not persist in their errors; if they do persist in them, then they are to be executed with fire; all their property in both cases being confiscated to the crown."

    The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Complete (1555-66) John Lothrop Motley 1845

  • "That such perturbators of the general quiet are to be executed, to wit: the men with the sword and the women to be buried alive, if they do not persist in their errors; if they do persist in them, then they are to be executed with fire; all their property in both cases being confiscated to the crown."

    The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Complete (1555-84) John Lothrop Motley 1845

  • "That such perturbators of the general quiet are to be executed, to wit: the men with the sword and the women to be buried alive, if they do not persist in their errors; if they do persist in them, then they are to be executed with fire; all their property in both cases being confiscated to the crown."

    PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete John Lothrop Motley 1845

  • The troubles excited in La Vendée and Calvados by a few royal volunteers had been appeased, and the perturbators disarmed.

    Memoirs of the Private Life, Return, and Reign of Napoleon in 1815, Vol. I Pierre Alexandre ��douard Fleury de Chaboulon 1807

  • They are duly chosen and elected in our town hall, good men and true every one; we will not be called rioters, or idle perturbators of the king's peace.

    The Fair Maid of Perth St. Valentine's Day Walter Scott 1801

  • They are duly chosen and elected in our town hall, good men and true every one; we will not be called rioters, or idle perturbators of the king’s peace.

    The Fair Maid of Perth 2008

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