This countrey ſwarmes with vile outragious men, That liue by rapine and by lawleſſe ſpoile, Fit ſouldiers for the wicked Tamburlaine.
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Rapine
//ˈɹæpaɪn//
Synonyms for "rapine" (22 found)
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Related words (11)
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Translations
21 translations across 10 languages.
Armenian
4 entries- թալան noun (seizure of someone's property by force)
- կողոպուտ noun (seizure of someone's property by force)
- թալանել verb (plunder)
- կողոպտել verb (plunder)
Bulgarian
2 entries- грабеж noun (seizure of someone's property by force)
- ограбвам verb (plunder)
Dutch
2 entries- roof noun (seizure of someone's property by force)
- plunderen verb (plunder)
Finnish
2 entries- ryöstö noun (seizure of someone's property by force)
- ryöstää verb (plunder)
French
1 entries- rapine noun (seizure of someone's property by force)
German
1 entries- Raub noun (seizure of someone's property by force)
Latin
1 entries- rapīna noun (seizure of someone's property by force)
Russian
2 entries- грабёж noun (seizure of someone's property by force)
- гра́бить verb (plunder)
Spanish
2 entries- rapiña noun (seizure of someone's property by force)
- saqueo noun (seizure of someone's property by force)
Swedish
4 entries- plundring noun (seizure of someone's property by force)
- rov noun (seizure of someone's property by force)
- röveri noun (seizure of someone's property by force)
- plundra verb (plunder)
Sample sentences
9 total sentences available.
Good Rapine, stab him: he is a ravisher.
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Justice and truth are the common ties of society; and therefore, even out-laws and robbers, who break with all the world besides, must keep faith and rules of equity amongst themselves, or else they cannot hold together. But will any one say, that those that live by fraud or rapine, have innate principles of truth and justice which they allow and assent to?
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And it was peculiar in their Temper, that they were fonder of what they could get by Rapine or Stealth at a greater diſtance, than much better Food provided for them at home.
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