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Definition of Purloiners
1. purloiner [n] - See also: purloiner
Lexicographical Neighbors of Purloiners
Literary usage of Purloiners
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New Werner Twentieth Century Edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica: A (1907)
"... but which turned out, when broken by its French purloiners, to be only a
remarkable piece of ancient glass. L Royal Palace. I Palazzo Balbi. 4. ..."
2. The Metropolitan (1836)
"... for he had no intention of sending his property to this state at all; but the
purloiners—our indignation will not permit us a gentler term— the ..."
3. Sermons and Discourses: Now Completed by the Introduction of His Posthumous by Thomas Chalmers (1877)
"In like manner we call upon you purloiners to cleanse your hands and come to the
Saviour. If you will not come upon these terms, the rich man had his bar in ..."
4. Sermons and Discourses by Thomas Chalmers (1846)
"It is right that every purloiner should be made to know what thousands and
thousands more of purloiners are not aware of, that the heavy judgment of God ..."
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