| Pronunciation: | | 'rapin
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[n] the act of despoiling a country in warfare |
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RAPINE is a 6 letter word that starts with R. |
| | Synonyms: | | rape |
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| | See Also: | | pillage, pillaging, plundering |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\Rap"ine\, 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.
Men who were impelled to war quite as much by the
desire of rapine as by the desire of glory.
--Macaulay.
2. Ravishment; rape. [Obs.] --Shak.
\Rap"ine\, v. t.
To plunder. --Sir G. Buck.
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