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- noun Plural form of
deathsman .
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Examples
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As, deathsmen, you have rid this sweet young prince!
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Republicans, -- swept to the shambles, and the deathsmen left alone in the pomp and purple of their victims!
Zanoni Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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OF THE TRAGEDY TO COME had stricken down his thought of guilt, and filled up its place with horror, -- a vision of a sleep as pure, of two forms wrapped in an embrace as fond, of intruders meditating a crime scarce fouler than his own; and the sins of the father starting into grim corporeal shapes, to become the deathsmen of the sons!
The Last of the Barons — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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3047: As deathsmen you haue rid this sweet yong Prince.
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