dispossessor

English

Etymology

dispossess +‎ -or

Noun

dispossessor (plural dispossessors)

  1. 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.
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