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Definition of Rapine
1. Noun. The act of despoiling a country in warfare.
Definition of Rapine
1. n. The act of plundering; the seizing and carrying away of things by force; spoliation; pillage; plunder.
2. v. t. To plunder.
Definition of Rapine
1. Noun. The seizure of one's property by force; plunder. ¹
2. Verb. To plunder. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Rapine
1. the taking of property by force [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rapine
Literary usage of Rapine
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1887)
"passed the Rhine upon the ice, was the prelude of a more important war. The boldest
hopes of rapine, ..."
2. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1887)
"... a menace to our safety ; a nation which looked upon the gains of industry as
the reward of rapine, which existed on the plunder of its neighbors, ..."
3. Curiosities of Literature by Isaac Disraeli (1823)
"the curses of the living for his rapine, while the stranger who grasped the
million he had raked together owed him no gratitude at his death. ..."
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