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noun
Rapine  n.  
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."
2.
Ravishment; rape. (Obs.)


verb
Rapine  v. t.  To plunder.





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... estimated that the products of machinery in Great Britain, with a population of eighteen millions, is equal to the labor of hundreds of millions of human hands. This vast gain is effected without the conquest or partitioning of the territory of any neighboring nation, and without rapine or the confiscation of property already accumulated by others. It is an absolute creation of wealth—that is, of those articles, commodities, and improvements which we appraise and set down as of a certain moneyed value alike in the inventory of a deceased man's estate and in the grand valuation ...
— Popular Education - For the use of Parents and Teachers, and for Young Persons of Both Sexes • Ira Mayhew
... principle under foot, and place on its altar the worship of the passions;—those are the demands which are already made, and those will be the trophies which the hands of political zealotry and personal rapine, in the first hour of their triumph, will raise on the grave where lies ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847 • Various
... and talked gayly as our horses climbed the hills. I thought, as I rode by their side, how happy we all were, and how beautiful was she—this flower plucked from the rapine and massacre of the Old War! And I fancy the notion that we were no longer children began dancing in my head ...
— In the Valley • Harold Frederic
... murderous Soudan, Blood-slaked and rapine swept. He seems to stand Upon the gory plain of Omdurman. Then Magersfontein, and supreme command Over his Highlanders. To shake his hand A King is proud, and princes call him friend, And glory crowns his life—and ...
— Songs of a Sourdough • Robert W. Service
... is a wretchedly poor place. All are needy, from the Sarkee downwards, and when they get any property it all comes from the razzias. The system of living on rapine and man-stealing seems to bring its ...
— Narrative of a Mission to Central Africa Performed in the Years 1850-51, Volume 2 • James Richardson


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