Rapine Definition

răpĭn
noun
The act of seizing and carrying off by force others' property; plunder; pillage.
Webster's New World
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verb

To plunder.

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Origin of Rapine

  • Middle English from Old French from Latin rapīna from rapere to seize rep- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Middle English and Old French, from Latin rapīna, from rapiō.

    From Wiktionary

Rapine Sentence Examples

  • All Northmen were not bent on rapine and plunder; mary were peaceful merchants.

  • So a black whirl and torment of rapine, violence and fraud was encircling the Western world, as a life went out which, notwithstanding some eccentricities and some aberrations, had made great tides in human destiny very luminous.

  • As the armies were far below the strength required by the policy of unbounded conquest and rapine, the first permanent law of conscription was passed in the summer of 1798.

  • The Egyptian soldiery had behaved throughout with the utmost barbarity, and their passage up the Nile was marked by rapine, murder, mutilation and fire.

  • He was pronounced guilty of rapine, incendiarism, incest, assassination and heresy.

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Words Starting With

RRARAP

Words Ending With

ENEINE

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6 Letter Words6 Letter Words Starting With R6 Letter Words Ending With E