different between plagiarism vs plagiary

English

Etymology

From plagiary +? -ism.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ple?d?????zm/

Noun

plagiarism (countable and uncountable, plural plagiarisms)

1. (uncountable) Copying of another person's ideas, text, or other creative work, and presenting it as one's own, especially without permission; plagiarizing.

   Even if it's not illegal, plagiarism is usually frowned upon.

   Copy from one, it's plagiarism. Copy from two, it's research.

2. (uncountable) Text or other work resulting from this act.

   The novel was awash in plagiarism, with entire passages lifted verbatim.

3. (countable) The instance of plagiarism.

Related terms

• plagiarist
• plagiarize

Translations

Further reading

• plagiarism in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• plagiarism in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

English

Alternative forms

• plagiarie [16th-17th c.]

Etymology

From Latin plagi?rius (“kidnapper, plagiarist”), from plagium (“kidnapping”), probably from plaga (“a net, snare, trap”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?ple?d?(?)??i/

Noun

plagiary (countable and uncountable, plural plagiaries)

1. (archaic) A plagiarist.
   • 1695, John Dryden (translator), Observations on the Art of Painting by Charles Alphonse du Fresnoy

     Without Invention a Painter is but a Copier, and a Poet but a Plagiary of others.

2. (obsolete) A kidnapper.
3. The crime of literary theft; plagiarism.
   • 1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, I.6:

     Plagiarie had not its nativity with Printing, but began in times when thefts were difficult, and the paucity of Books scarce wanted that Invention.

   • accounted Plagiary

Derived terms

• plagiarism
• plagiarist

Adjective

plagiary (not comparable)

1. (archaic) plagiarizing
   • 1863, The Home and Foreign Review (issue 5, page 87)

     The busy bee is his classical device, and the simile confesses and justifies his plundering propensities; but the plagiary poet who steals ideas is represented by another insect, […]

Further reading

• plagiary in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• plagiary in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.