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pillage
English
Etymology
From Old French pillage, from piller (“plunder”), from an unattested meaning of Late Latin pili?, probably a figurative use of Latin pil? (“I remove (hair)”), from pilus (“hair”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?p?l.?d?/, /?p?l.?d?/
- Rhymes: -?l?d?
Verb
pillage (third-person singular simple present pillages, present participle pillaging, simple past and past participle pillaged)
- (transitive, intransitive) To loot or plunder by force, especially in time of war.
- 1911, Sabine Baring-Gould, Castles and Cave Dwellings of Europe, Chapter VI: Cliff Castles—Continued,
- Archibald V. (1361-1397) was Count of Perigord. He was nominally under the lilies [France], but he pillaged indiscriminately in his county.
- 1911, Sabine Baring-Gould, Castles and Cave Dwellings of Europe, Chapter VI: Cliff Castles—Continued,
Translations
Noun
pillage (countable and uncountable, plural pillages)
- The spoils of war.
- The act of pillaging.
- 2013, Zoë Marriage, Formal Peace and Informal War: Security and Development in Congo
- An employee at a brewery in Kinshasa rated the aftermath as more catastrophic to the company than the direct violence: It was more the consequences of the pillages that hit Bracongo – the poverty of the people, our friends who buy beer.
- 2013, Zoë Marriage, Formal Peace and Informal War: Security and Development in Congo
Synonyms
- (spoils of war): See Thesaurus:booty
Translations
French
Etymology
piller +? -age
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pi.ja?/
Noun
pillage m (plural pillages)
- pillage
Norman
Etymology
From Old French pillage.
Noun
pillage m (plural pillages)
- (Jersey) looting
Related terms
- pilleux (“looter”)
Old French
Noun
pillage m (oblique plural pillages, nominative singular pillages, nominative plural pillage)
- pillaging
Related terms
- piller
Descendants
- ? English: pillage
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rapine
English
Etymology
From Middle English rapyne, from Old French rapine, from Latin rap?na, from rapi?. Compare ravine.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??æpa?n/
Noun
rapine (countable and uncountable, plural rapines)
- The seizure of someone's property by force; pillage, plunder.
- 1848, Thomas Macaulay, “The History of England from the Accession Of James II”
- men who were impelled to war quite as much by the desire of rapine as by the desire of glory
- The Bat—they called him the Bat. Like a bat he chose the night hours for his work of rapine; like a bat he struck and vanished, pouncingly, noiselessly; like a bat he never showed himself to the face of the day.
- 1951, Isaac Asimov, Foundation (1974 Panther Books Ltd publication), Part V: “The Merchant Princes”, Ch.10, pp.157–158:
- “You could join Wiscard’s remnants in the Red Stars. I don’t know, though, if you’d call that fighting or piracy. Or you could join our present gracious viceroy?—?gracious by right of murder, pillage, rapine, and the word of a boy Emperor, since rightfully assassinated.”
- 1848, Thomas Macaulay, “The History of England from the Accession Of James II”
Translations
References
- The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition (2000).
Verb
rapine (third-person singular simple present rapines, present participle rapining, simple past and past participle rapined)
- (transitive) To plunder.
- 1619, George Buck, History of Richard III:
- A Tyrant doth not only rapine his Subjects, but spoils and robs Churches.
- 1619, George Buck, History of Richard III:
Translations
Anagrams
- Napier, arpine, panier
Italian
Noun
rapine f
- plural of rapina
Anagrams
- aprine
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