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Direption

//dɪˈɹɛpʃən// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The act of despoiling, plundering, or snatching away. countable, uncountable

    "[T]heir hoſtile oppreſsions vvere increaſed by their domeſticke vexations, for that the vvhole Countrey by theſe continuall direptions, vvas utterly depriued of the ſtaffe of foode, hauing nothing left to prolong their life, but that only vvhat they got in hunting."

Etymology

From Latin dīreptio, from dīripiō (“tear asunder, plunder”), from dis- + rapiō (“seize, carry off”).

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