rapine
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈɹæpaɪn/
rapine
- The seizure of someone's property by force; pillage, plunder.
- 1848, Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay, “The History of England from the Accession Of James II”
- men who were impelled to war quite as much by the desire of rapine as by the desire of glory
- 1920, Mary Roberts Rinehart; Avery Hopwood, chapter I, in The Bat: A Novel from the Play (Dell Book; 241), New York, N.Y.: Dell Publishing Company, OCLC 20230794 ↗, [https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.hwptej;view=1up;seq=5 page 01]:
- The Bat—they called him the Bat. Like a bat he chose the night hours for his work of rapine; like a bat he struck and vanished, pouncingly, noiselessly; like a bat he never showed himself to the face of the day.
- 1951, Isaac Asimov, Foundation (1974 Panther Books Ltd publication), Part V: “The Merchant Princes”, Ch.10, pp.157–158:
- “You could join Wiscard’s remnants in the Red Stars. I don’t know, though, if you’d call that fighting or piracy. Or you could join our present gracious viceroy — gracious by right of murder, pillage, rapine, and the word of a boy Emperor, since rightfully assassinated.”
- 1848, Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay, “The History of England from the Accession Of James II”
rapine (rapines, present participle rapining; past and past participle rapined)
- (transitive) To plunder.
, History of Richard III: - A Tyrant doth not only rapine his Subjects, but spoils and robs Churches.
- Russian: гра́бить
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