Antonyms for pillager

Grammar : Noun

Spell : pil-ij

Phonetic Transcription : ˈpɪl ɪdʒ

Definition of pillager

Origin : late 14c., "act of plundering" (especially in war), from Old French pilage (14c.) "plunder," from pillier "to plunder, loot, ill-treat," possibly from Vulgar Latin *piliare "to plunder," probably from a figurative use of Latin pilare "to strip of hair," perhaps also meaning "to skin" (cf. figurative extension of verbs pluck, fleece), from pilus "a hair" (see pile (n.3)).

As in looter : noun thief
As in robber : noun person who steals
As in bandit : noun thief
As in vandal : noun person who defiles property
As in destroyer : noun a destructive agent
As in brigand : noun hoodlum
As in plunderer : noun robber
As in raider : noun thief

Example sentences :

The Crown Prince has been pictured as a libertine and a pillager.
Extract from : « Face to Face with Kaiserism » by James W. Gerard

I appear as the benefactor, and not as the pillager, of the Indians.
Extract from : « The Conquest » by Eva Emery Dye

This seems to refer to the profession of brigand and pillager.
Extract from : « Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 13 » by Various

Is she a poacher, a pillager of other's property, or a genuine huntress?
Extract from : « More Hunting Wasps » by J. Henri Fabre

You are the Eletto of Aalst, the pillager of cities, and this cannot be swept aside as easily as the dust from the floor.
Extract from : « A Word Only A Word, Complete » by Georg Ebers

He had made a pillager's nest for himself, and he died like a pillager, abandoned even by those who were dear to him.
Extract from : « Contemporary Russian Novelists » by Serge Persky

I have buried beloved dead on this journey and I have surrendered all my substance to a pillager.
Extract from : « The City of Delight » by Elizabeth Miller

But go thou to the temple of Minerva the pillager, with victims, having assembled the matrons of distinction.
Extract from : « The Iliad of Homer (1873) » by Homer

Several treaties were afterward made with the Chippewa and Pillager Indians, merely changing or reducing their reservation.
Extract from : « Fifty Years In The Northwest » by William Henry Carman Folsom

Synonyms for pillager

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