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rapine

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6 lettersPronunciation /ˈɹæpaɪn/Part of speech nounSorted aeinprStarts with REnds with E0 clues
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Definitions

  1. the act of despoiling a country in warfare

Word origin

From Middle English rapyne, from Old French rapine, from Latin rapīna, from rapiō. Doublet of ravine.

Used in a sentence

  • This countrey ſwarmes with vile outragious men, That liue by rapine and by lawleſſe ſpoile, Fit ſouldiers for the wicked Tamburlaine.
  • Good Rapine, stab him: he is a ravisher.
  • And it was peculiar in their Temper, that they were fonder of what they could get by Rapine or Stealth at a greater diſtance, than much better Food provided for them at home.

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