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And the court, so often decried as a ruthless uprooter of social customs, likes to speak strictly and cautiously on issues of sex and morality.

From Time Magazine Archive

No! your lofty emprise was to fetter and foil ��The uprooter of Greece's domain, When he tore the last remnant of food from her soil, ��Till her famished sank pale as the slain!

From Mosaics of Grecian History by Willson, Marcius

Vahakn was deified because of his great valor and made the fire-god of the Armenian people.16 He was called “Vishapakagh,” uprooter of dragons, since he cleared Armenia of monsters and saved it from evil influences.

From Armenian Legends and Festivals by Boettiger, Louis A.