different between rapine vs larceny

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

Coined in Middle English (as larceni) between 1425 and 1475 from Anglo-Norman larcin (“theft”), from Latin latrocinium (“robbery”), from latro (“robber, mercenary”), from Ancient Greek ?????? (látron, “pay, hire”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?l??.s?n.i/, /?l??.s?.ni/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?l??.s?.ni/

Noun

larceny (countable and uncountable, plural larcenies)

1. (law, uncountable) The unlawful taking of personal property as an attempt to deprive the legal owner of it permanently. [from mid-15th c.]

   Synonyms: theft, robbery
2. (law, countable) A larcenous act attributable to an individual.

Derived terms

• compound larceny
• grand larceny
• petit larceny, petty larceny
• simple larceny

Related terms

• larcenous
• larcenist

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References

Anagrams

• Carnley