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English
Etymology
From depredate + -or.
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: de‧pre‧da‧tor
Noun
depredator (plural depredators)
- One who depredates, or commits depredation.
1817 December 31 (indicated as 1818), [Walter Scott], chapter III, in Rob Roy. , volume I, Edinburgh: James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co. ; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC, page 61:An open heath, a close plantation, were alike subjects of his apprehension; and the whistle of a shepherd lad was instantly converted into the signal of a depredator.
1836, Robert Huish, Lander’s Travels:Orders were now given to fire on all depredators, royal or plebeian; and after a few shots had been discharged without producing any fatal effects, the thieves hid themselves amongst the rocks, and were merely seen peeping through the crevices.
1892, Robert Louis Stevenson, Lloyd Osbourne, “The ‘Norah Creina’”, in The Wrecker, London, Paris: Cassell & Company, , →OCLC, pages 191–192:The sight of her old neighbourly depredator shivering at the door in tatters, the very oddity of his appeal, touched a soft spot in the spinster's heart.
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