[f. as prec. + -ER1.] One who bereaves.

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1592.  Wyrley, Armorie, 151. Ah filching death … Bereauer of my sole deliueraunce.

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1614.  Raleigh, Hist. World, II. 411. The bereaver being Lord of many.

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1624.  W. Hall, Man’s Gt. Enemy, in Farr’s S. P. (1848), 199. Of soule and bodie’s good hee’s a bereauer.

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