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deathmonger en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈdɛθmʌŋɡə(ɹ)/ (UK)
• /ˈdɛθmʊŋɡə/ (UK)

Etymology

From death + monger.

Meanings

1. One who peddles death; a murderer of many.
   • 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 […] 2002, Reuven P Bulka, Modern folk Judaism: the reality and the challenge:
   • So what if arms dealers are money-grabbing deathmongers? This is a revelation? 1990, Nat Segaloff, Hurricane Billy: the stormy life and films of William Friedkin:
   • Having babies spits in the eye of the Ludendorffs and Kaiser Wilhelms and the Krupps and all the other deathmongers who'd kill the lot of us if they could. 2006, John Biggins, The Two-Headed Eagle:

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Relateds

warmonger · merchant of death · arms dealer