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Definition of Purloiner
1. n. One who purloins.
Definition of Purloiner
1. Noun. One who purloins. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Purloiner
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Purloiner
Literary usage of Purloiner
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Epitome of the Laws of Nova-Scotia by Beamish Murdoch (1833)
"At common law the owner of goods stolen was obliged to bring an appeal of robbery
against the purloiner, as there was no restitution of goods consequent to ..."
2. Sermons and Discourses: Now Completed by the Introduction of His Posthumous by Thomas Chalmers (1877)
"It is right that every purloiner should be made to know what ... are not out of
place when we tell the mt>st ignorant and graceless purloiner among you, ..."
3. Sermons and Discourses by Thomas Chalmers (1846)
"It is right that every purloiner should be made to know what thousands and ...
of place when we tell the most ignorant and graceless purloiner among you, ..."
4. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens, Edward Chauncey Baldwin (1906)
"Accordingly, the forger was put Death; the utterer of a bad note was put to Death;
the unlawful opener of a letter was put to Death; the purloiner of forty ..."
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