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Definition of Impoverisher
1. n. One who, or that which, impoverishes.
Definition of Impoverisher
1. Noun. Someone who impoverishes. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Impoverisher
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Impoverisher
Literary usage of Impoverisher
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Plutarch's Lives: The Translation Called Drydens's by Plutarch (1885)
"... made justice odious, as if it were the pest and impoverisher of a family, and
beneficial to all, rather than to those that were endowed with it. ..."
2. Henderson's Hand-book of the Grasses of Great Britain and America: Their by John Henderson (1875)
"It is now considered a good permanent grass to be sown on medium lands, on account
of its hardiness and and its being but a slight impoverisher of the soil. ..."
3. Southern Literary Messenger by Carnegie-Mellon University, School of Computer Science (1843)
"... impoverisher of tho soil upon which it grows, and the grain makes very inferior
bread, it is now cultivated to a very small extent. ..."
4. Arator: Being a Series of Agricultural Essays, Practical and Political, in by John Taylor (1817)
"WC^Cte-e, This objection is not founded upon the erroneous opinion, that it is
peculiarly an impoverisher. On the con- trary, my impression was, ..."
5. Plutarch's Lives: The Translation Called Dryden's by Plutarch, John Dryden (1895)
"... made justice odious, as if it were the pest and impoverisher of a family, and
beneficial to all, rather than to those that were endowed with it. ..."
6. The Advocate of Peace by American Peace Society (1857)
"War is tne great impoverisher of nations. By its uncertainties and sudden changes,
its general derangement and stagnation of business, its withdrawal of ..."
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