Definition of "rapine" [rap•ine]

• Forcible seizure of another's property; plunder. (noun)

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• "The number of prisoners or criminals would be inadequate to the annual demand; but the common people are in a state of servitude to their lords; the exercise of fraud or rapine is unpunished in a lawless community; and the market is continually replenished by the abuse of civil and paternal authority."
• "The king, while fully acknowledging Clive's services, thought him guilty of "rapine," and disapproved of his virtual acquittal."
• "Eginhard's indignation at the "rapine" of this "nequissimus nebulo" is exquisitely droll."