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rapine

[ rap-in, -ahyn ]

noun

  1. the violent seizure and carrying off of another's property; plunder.


rapine

/ ˈæ貹ɪ /

noun

  1. the seizure of property by force; pillage
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of rapine1

1375–1425; late Middle English < Latin īԲ robbery, pillage. See rape 1, -ine 2
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of rapine1

C15: from Latin īԲ plundering, from rapere to snatch
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“The second rapine,” a teacher wrote, “could use a comma as well!”

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“To deny the power would be to deny the right of the state . . . to suppress armed mobs bent on riot and rapine,” the court noted.

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What has gone wrong in Mexico, Cuba, Central America, Venezuela, Peru and Bolivia, Arana sadly concludes, is “what always went wrong: the dictators, the rapine, the seemingly insurmountable indigence, corruption, inefficiency. It’s just our nature.”

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There were bayonetings of surrendered soldiers and mistreatment of prisoners of war and numerous instances of rapine.

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Those lands originally protected by President Theodore Roosevelt in 1901 may not survive Trump and EPA administrator Scott Pruitt's rapine behavior.

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