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Definition of Rapines
1. rapine [n] - See also: rapine
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rapines
Literary usage of Rapines
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An exposition of the Creed by John Pearson (1857)
"sufficiently retaliate the many murders committed by one notorious pirate, who
may cast many thousands overboard; or the rapines and assassinations of one ..."
2. The History of the Roman Emperors: From Augustus to Constantine by Jean Baptiste Louis Crévier, John Mills (1814)
"He may be looked upon as a second Caligula. Other instances of his cruelly.
Enormous extortions and rapines. His prodigality to the soldiery ..."
3. An impartial history of Ireland, from the period of the English invasion to by Dennis Taaffe (1811)
"... or the foolish lenity of the people; that the rapines, committed by the infinite
number of wicked, wandering, idle people, were intolerable to the poor ..."
4. Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions by Robert South (1853)
"And this affords also an answer to the second part of the argument, concerning
those sad and sinful effects that follow it, as unjust violences, rapines, ..."
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