[f. as prec. + -ER1.] One who practises or is given to extortion.

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c. 1375.  Pains of Hell, 37, in O. E. Misc., App. ii. 211. Þese were … Extorcioners.

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1413.  Lydg., Pilgr. Sowle, IV. xxix. (1859), 61. They done none execucion vpon extorcioners, ne tyrauntes.

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1484.  Rich. III., in Ellis, Orig. Lett., II. 54, I. 162. Many been knowen for open murdrers, advowters, and extortioners.

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1526.  Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W., 1531), 174 b. The vsurer, the thefe, & the extorcioner.

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1649.  Bp. Hall, Cases Consc., I. v. 46. Some covetous extortioner … buyes up the whole lading of the ship.

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1789.  Bentham, Princ. Legisl., xiii. § 1. The most determined extortioner in office has some bridle and some restraint.

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1839.  Thirlwall, Greece, IV. 207. To purge the city of the vile informers and extortioners.

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