Also evicter. [f. EVICT v. + -OR.] One who evicts.
a. One who expels the inhabitants from a country. b. One who evicts his tenants. c. A person employed to eject tenants from their holdings.
1816. Keatinge, Trav. (1817), I. 162. They [Moors of Spain] were as different too … from their conquerors and evictors as possible.
1865. Pall Mall Gaz., 14 Oct., 5/2. One of the pitmen … barricaded his door, and as the evictors had no warrant to force it open the proceedings were suspended.
1885. Manch. Exam., 20 Oct., 4/7. A crusade against those denounced as evicters and rackrenters.
1888. Kenny, in Times, 2 Oct., 5/6. The Plan of Campaign … is … their [the tenantry’s] only bulwark and protection against the hand of the evictor.
