devourer
Noun

devourer (plural devourers)

  1. One who devours.
    • 1774, Edward Long, The History of Jamaica (page 354)
      It is doubtful, whether we ought to ascribe any superior qualities to the more ancient Africans; for we find them represented […] as proud, lazy, deceitful, thievish, […] devourers of human flesh, and quaffers of human blood […]



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