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Definition of Purloined
1. purloin [v] - See also: purloin
Lexicographical Neighbors of Purloined
Literary usage of Purloined
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Short-story by William Patterson Atkinson (1916)
"Well, then; I have received personal information, from a very high quarter, that
a certain document of the last importance has been purloined from the royal ..."
2. The History of Modern Europe: With an Account of the Decline & Fall of the by William Russell, Charles Coote (1822)
"... if the duke of Wellington had not lent the high authority of his name and the
effective aid of his soldiers, for the removal of the purloined property. ..."
3. The History of Modern Europe: And a View of the Progress of Society from the by William Russell (1837)
"... if the duke of Wellington had not lent the high authority of his name, and
the effective aid of his soldiers, for the removal of the purloined property. ..."
4. A Treatise on the Law of Master and Servant: Including Therein Masters and by Charles Manley Smith (1860)
"... terials as aforesaid, by persons who sell them knowing them to have selling,
been purloined or embezzled ; be it therefore further enacted, that J^. ..."
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