dispossessor

English

Etymology

From 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.