different between robbing vs pillage
robbing
English
Verb
robbing
- present participle of rob
Noun
robbing (countable and uncountable, plural robbings)
- robbery
- 1985, David-Hillel Ruben, The Metaphysics of the Social World (page 141)
- Consider the first, allegedly contrastive fact, that there were some bank robbings by Sutton rather than no robbings at all by Sutton.
- 1985, David-Hillel Ruben, The Metaphysics of the Social World (page 141)
Middle English
Noun
robbing
- Alternative form of robbyng
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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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