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Definition of Literary pirate
1. Noun. Someone who uses another person's words or ideas as if they were his own.
Generic synonyms: Stealer, Thief
Derivative terms: Pirate, Piratical, Plagiarise, Plagiarise, Plagiarism, Plagiarism, Plagiarize, Plagiarize
Lexicographical Neighbors of Literary Pirate
Literary usage of Literary pirate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Eighth Commandment by Charles Reade (1860)
"Here was honest labour far beyond any literary pirate's. Yet when at last they
succeeded in robbing the mail of ten thousand pounds, it was not accounted to ..."
2. The Origin of Printing: In Two Essays ... : with Occasional Remarks, and an by William Bowyer, Conyers Middleton, Gerard Meerman (1776)
"... re-printed it word for word, without taking the leaft notice of its author;
and this literary pirate was in time regarded as the ..."
3. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1890)
"British Author—But I should have my royalty on your reprint of my books.
literary pirate—Sir, in the American Republic of letters we acknowledge no royally. ..."
4. Southern Literary Messenger by Carnegie-Mellon University, School of Computer Science (1844)
"What guerdon for our toils will remain but barren honor, now so lightly esteemed,
when some literary pirate has clutched the pecuniary reward ? ..."
5. The Methodist Review (1889)
"If it is said that its design is to prevent wickedness by destroying the occupation
of the literary pirate, it must first be determined if the pirate is ..."
6. Good Will, Trade-marks and Unfair Trading by Edward Sidney Rogers (1914)
"... the literary pirate. PROTECTING THE GOOD WILL OF A PUBLISHER There seems to
be a great amount of confusion among the decisions, owing to the tendency of ..."
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