plagiary
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of plagiary
1590–1600; < Latin plagiārius kidnapper, equivalent to plagi ( um ) kidnapping (akin to plaga snare) + -ārius -ary
Example Sentences
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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
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
Franck, as we saw, called Walton ‘a plagiary.’
From Introduction to the Compleat Angler by Lang, Andrew
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
Yet the very few novels I have read, of later publications, incapacitates me again for detecting plagiary, or for making such comparisons as proper criticism may demand.
From A Publisher and His Friends Memoir and Correspondence of John Murray; with an Account of the Origin and Progress of the House, 1768-1843 by Smiles, Samuel
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