Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who depopulates.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who depopulates; a dispeopler.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A person who
depopulates an area, especially one who forcibly removes people from his estate
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Examples
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Collot d'Herbois, the demolisher and depopulator of Lyons, is said to have died in the common hospital, in consequence of drinking off at once a whole bottle of ardent spirits.
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Oh, most holy men, banish to the home of all other unclean spirits violence, avarice, hatred, rapine; and root out from among your people luxury, which is the depopulator of the human race.
The Letters of Cassiodorus Being A Condensed Translation Of The Variae Epistolae Of Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator Senator Cassiodorus 1872
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Catherine saw out of the corner of her eye, and without taking a bit of open notice, slipped off and lavished hospitality and tenderness on the surviving depopulator.
The Cloister and the Hearth Charles Reade 1849
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His violent menaces had extorted his readmission into the church, against which Cyprian protests with much vehemence: ne pecuniae commissae sibi fraudator, ne stuprator virginum, ne matrimoniorum multorum depopulator et corruptor, ultra adhuc sponsam Christi incorruptam praesentiae suae dedecore, et impudica atque incesta contagione, violaret.
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 1 Edward Gibbon 1765
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His violent menaces had extorted his readmission into the church, against which Cyprian protests with much vehemence: ne pecuniae commissae sibi fraudator, ne stuprator virginum, ne matrimoniorum multorum depopulator et corruptor, ultra adhuc sponsam Christi incorruptam praesentiae suae dedecore, et impudica atque incesta contagione, violaret.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206
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His followers called him, by way of honour, the god of armies, the father of flaughter, the depopulator, the incendiary.
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