pillager

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English

Etymology

From pillage +‎ -er.

Noun

pillager (plural pillagers)

  1. A person who pillages.
    • 1659, John Gauden, Ἰερα Δακρυα. Ecclesiæ Anglicanæ Suspiria. The tears, sighs, complaints, and prayers of the Church of England, London: R. Royston, page 495:
      ...the hills of the robbers, predatorious oppreſſors of true Religion, pillagers and ſpoilers of the Church of Chriſt, of which too many ſad inſtances have been in ancient and later daies both at home and abroad.
    • 1973 November 24, John Canaday, “Art: Echoes of Ottoman Empire”, in The New York Times‎:
      Wall labels, if you read them, will prepare you for the shift from the conventional picture of the terrible Turk, the ravisher, the torturer, the pillager (see T. E. Lawrence) and the Turk of the massacres (see Delacroix and others).
    • 2002, Reuven P Bulka, Modern folk Judaism: the reality and the challenge:
      And then there were those who died and were martyred in the struggle to maintain a Jewish lifestyle, murdered at the hands of deathmongers, pillagers […]

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