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Hasil cari dari kata atau frase: Rapine (0.00979 detik)
Found 2 items, similar to Rapine.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: rapine
rapine
n : the act of despoiling a country in warfare [syn:
rape]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Rapine
Rapine
\Rap"ine\ (r[a^]p"[i^]n), n. [F. rapine; cf. Pr. & It.
rapina; all fr. L. rapina, fr. rapere to seize and carry off
by force. See
Rapid, and cf.
Raven rapine.]
1. The act of plundering; the seizing and carrying away of
things by force; spoliation; pillage; plunder.
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Men who were impelled to war quite as much by the
desire of rapine as by the desire of glory.
--Macaulay.
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2. Ravishment; rape. [Obs.] --Shak.
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Rapine
\Rap"ine\, v. t.
To plunder. --Sir G. Buck.
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