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Definition of Demolisher
1. n. One who, or that which, demolishes; as, a demolisher of towns.
Definition of Demolisher
1. Noun. One who demolishes. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Demolisher
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Demolisher
Literary usage of Demolisher
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Abaddon's Steam Engine, Calumny, Delineated: Being an Attempt to Stop Its by Lover of mercy rejoicing over judgement, Richard Ferguson (1817)
"... of evil intention, is the one hundredth part as great a feller, thrower down,
or demolisher as the feller, thrower down, and demolisher of reputation, ..."
2. Evangelical Christendom: Christian Work and the News of the Churches by Evangelical Alliance (1861)
"Bunsen was a " demolisher of creeds. ... furious assault upon the foreign Bunsen
as a great creed- demolisher ; or н side-wind diversion of obloquy from the ..."
3. Dictionary of National Biography: From the Earliest Times to 1900 by George Smith, Leslie Stephen, Sidney Lee (1897)
"L ... in 'A Nice Cut for the demolisher" (Urit. Mus. Cat.), and the superstition
persisted for nearly a century longer. He suggested chalk as a remedy for ..."
4. The Works of George Berkeley, D.D., Bishop of Cloyne by George Berkeley, John Dewey, Ferdinand Gregorovius, George Sampson, Annie Hamilton, Arthur James Balfour Balfour (1898)
"Whatever merit this writer may have as a demolisher, I always thought he had very
little as a builder. It is natural for careless writers to run into faults ..."
5. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1922)
"... especially to stupid supporters of the old regime, — Voltaire was a scoffer,
a demolisher. To the superstitious, he was the devil incarnate. ..."
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