plagiary
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Origin of plagiary
1590–1600; < Latin plagiārius kidnapper, equivalent to plagi ( um ) kidnapping (akin to plaga snare) + -ārius -ary
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The case follows that of the family of Marvin Gaye successfully suing Pharrell Williams and Robin Thicke for plagiary on their hit Blurred Lines.
From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2015
It may be that many a successful author has been a plagiarist, but no author ever succeeded because of his plagiary.
From Americanisms and Briticisms with other essays on other isms by Matthews, Brander
He is allowed to have been a scholar, and to have understood and practised the dramatic rules; but Dryden proves him to have likewise been an unbounded plagiary.
From The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volume I. by Cibber, Theophilus
What he had of humorous or passionate, he seems to have had not from nature, but from other poets; if not always as a plagiary, at least as an imitator.
From Lives of the Poets, Volume 1 by Johnson, Samuel
Ravenscroft thus proceeds against Mr. Dryden: 'That I may maintain the character of impartial, to which I pretend, I must pull off his disguise, and discover the politic plagiary that lurks under it.
From The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volume III by Cibber, Theophilus
These gentlemen are undoubtedly the first plagiaries that pretend to make a reputation, by stealing from a man's works in his own life-time, and out of a public print.'
From The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volume IV by Cibber, Theophilus
At the same time he denounced the authors, so as to disincline the reader to look into their pages for the D'Israelian plagiaries.
From Bygones Worth Remembering, Vol. 2 (of 2) by Holyoake, George Jacob
And thus he still, new plagiaries seeking, Reversed ventriloquism's trick, For, 'stead of Dick thro' others speaking, 'Twas others we heard speak thro' Dick.
From The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes by Rossetti, William Michael
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