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Definition of Purloining
1. purloin [v] - See also: purloin
Lexicographical Neighbors of Purloining
Literary usage of Purloining
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin: Presenting the Original Facts and Documents Upon by Harriet Beecher Stowe (1853)
"... because its legitimate tendency ! is to make his slaves honest, trusty and
faithful : not serving " with eye service, as men pleaser»," "not purloining, ..."
2. A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin: Presenting the Original Facts and Documents Upon by Harriet Beecher Stowe (1853)
"... "not purloining, hut showing all got»! fidelity." " And i» this," he would
ask, " really the tendency of the gospel V 1 would answer, Ye». ..."
3. The Daring Adventures of Kit Carson and Fremont, Among Buffaloes, Grizzlies by John Charles Frémont (1888)
"It was therefore necessary to recover the horses, but it was desirable to punish
the thieves to prevent further purloining. Kit was chosen as the fitting ..."
4. The Old and New Testament Connected in the History of the Jews and by Humphrey Prideaux (1845)
"For the Lacedemonians bearing an implacable spite to him for what he had done in
the restoration of Athens, accused him of purloining the king's money for ..."
5. The Protection of Woodlands Against Dangers Arising from Organic and by G. Kauschinger (1893)
"They may be offences of commission or of omission ; they may be actual thefts,
or purloining of forest produce, and as such punishable under the penal laws; ..."
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