enslaver
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- Rhymes: -eɪvə(ɹ)
Noun
[edit]enslaver (plural enslavers)
- One who enslaves.
- 1720, Jonathan Swift, To Stella, visiting me in my sickness:
- What indignation in her mind
Against enslavers of mankind!
Base kings, and ministers of state,
Eternal objects of her hate!
- 2009 March 30, Edward Rothstein, “Casting a Sliver of Light on the Heart of Darkness”, in New York Times[1]:
- And then came others, possessing weaponry and a sophisticated support before which tribes in dense jungles had no recourse: European concessionaires and feckless traders, brutish exploiters and enslavers.