rapine
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[edit] English
[edit] Etymology
From Middle English and Old French, from Latin rapīna, from rapiō.
[edit] Noun
rapine (uncountable)
- The seizure of one's property by force; plunder.
- 1951, Isaac Asimov, Foundation (1974 Panther Books Ltd publication), part V: “The Merchant Princes”, chapter 10, pages 157–158
- “You could join Wiscard’s remnants in the Red Stars. I don’t know, though, if you’d call that fighting or piracy. Or you could join our present gracious viceroy — gracious by right of murder, pillage, rapine, and the word of a boy Emperor, since rightfully assassinated.”
- 1951, Isaac Asimov, Foundation (1974 Panther Books Ltd publication), part V: “The Merchant Princes”, chapter 10, pages 157–158
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[edit] Translations
seizure of one's property by force
[edit] References
- The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition (2000).
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[edit] Italian
[edit] Noun
rapine f.
- Plural form of rapina.
