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Definition of Purloins
1. purloin [v] - See also: purloin
Lexicographical Neighbors of Purloins
Literary usage of Purloins
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. In Music Land: A Handbook for Young People by George Putnam Upton (1913)
"... of Bach — The Bach family — Johann's early studies — purloins his brother's
music — The orphan's first journey — The old man and the herrings — A friend ..."
2. New Commentaries on the Criminal Law Upon a New System of Legal Exposition by Joel Prentiss Bishop (1892)
"On which distinction, if a person who is sent out for change gets and purloins
it, he commits embezzlement, not larceny.8 So where one intrusted another ..."
3. Sunlight and Shadow: Or, Gleanings from My Life Work : Comprising Personal by John Bartholomew Gough (1884)
"(noun,) one who purloins the writings of another, and puts them off as his own,
... Plagiary (a noun), a thief in literature, one who purloins another's ..."
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