dispossessor
English
Etymology
dispossess + -or
Noun
dispossessor (plural dispossessors)
- One who dispossesses.
- 1661, Abraham Cowley, A Discourse by Way of Vision Concerning the Government of Oliver Cromwell
- the Heirs (blessed be God) are yet surviving, and likely to outlive all Heirs of their dispossessors
- 2000, Renée L. Bergland, The National Uncanny: Indian Ghosts and American Subjects, →ISBN, page 3:
- Europeans take possession of Native Aerican lands, to be sure, but at the same time, Native Americans take supernatural possession of their dispossessors.
- 1661, Abraham Cowley, A Discourse by Way of Vision Concerning the Government of Oliver Cromwell