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rapine

[ rap-in, -ahyn ]

noun

  1. the violent seizure and carrying off of another's property; plunder.


rapine

/ ˈræpaɪn /

noun

  1. the seizure of property by force; pillage
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of rapine1

1375–1425; late Middle English < Latin rapīna robbery, pillage. See rape 1, -ine 2
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Word History and Origins

Origin of rapine1

C15: from Latin rapīna plundering, from rapere to snatch
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Example Sentences

The lion caught enough for his whelps, and killed for his lionesses: and he filled his holes with prey, and his den with rapine.

Why hast thou shewn me iniquity and grievance, to see rapine and injustice before me?

Nothing is more terrible than a people who, having nothing to lose, fight in the united spirit of rapine and of religion.

He gave up the town to pillage and rapine, allowing the doing of such deeds as have consigned his name to well-merited infamy.

Accordingly, the bishop and the nobles had been forced to renounce their habits of violence and rapine.

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