[f. as prec. + -ER1.] One who bereaves.
1592. Wyrley, Armorie, 151. Ah filching death
Bereauer of my sole deliueraunce.
1614. Raleigh, Hist. World, II. 411. The bereaver being Lord of many.
1624. W. Hall, Mans Gt. Enemy, in Farrs S. P. (1848), 199. Of soule and bodies good hees a bereauer.