different between rapine vs freebooting

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)

1. 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.”

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)

1. (transitive) To plunder.
   • 1619, George Buck, History of Richard III:

     A Tyrant doth not only rapine his Subjects, but spoils and robs Churches.

Translations

Anagrams

• Napier, arpine, panier

Italian

Noun

rapine f

1. plural of rapina

Anagrams

• aprine

English

Etymology

From freebooter (“a type of pirate”).

Noun

freebooting (uncountable)

1. Piracy or plundering.
2. (computing) Software piracy, or stealing or unauthorized rehosting of digital content.
   • 1982, InfoWorld (volume 4, number 15, page 30)

     Your recent issue about the problems of electronic software piracy or "freebooting" — if you will — was excellent and timely. However, I wonder if both sides have failed to understand the social significance of the struggle.

   • 1994, United States. Congress. Senate, Country reports on economic policy and trade practices

     Freebooting of broadcast satellite signals may exist privately, but we have no evidence of illegal signal capture being commercialized any longer.

   • 1998, InfoWorld (volume 20, page 79)

     Many felt that the software companies are really the ones who ought to be called pirates. […] No wonder, the reader said, that customers are tempted to a little freebooting of their own.

   • 2014, Brady Haran, Hello Internet: Episode #5: Freebooting:

     Oh those freebooters taking our videos! I'm sick of it. Freebooting, you know, it's a serious issue!

Translations

Adjective

freebooting (not comparable)

1. Engaged in piracy or plunder

Translations

Verb

freebooting

1. present participle of freeboot

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