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rapine
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synonyms: despoil, depredate ???
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Definition:the violent seizure of somebody's property; plunder
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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.
Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels Into Several Remote Regions of the World (1726)
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As might have been expected, there were always plenty of renegade and ruffianly white men eager to enter into his service, in which they could give full fling to their instincts of rapine and licentiousness.
Louis Becke. The Strange Adventure of James Shervinton (1902)
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