rapine
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of rapine
1375–1425; late Middle English < Latin rapīna robbery, pillage. See rape 1, -ine 2
Example Sentences
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“The second rapine,” a teacher wrote, “could use a comma as well!”
From Washington Post
“To deny the power would be to deny the right of the state . . . to suppress armed mobs bent on riot and rapine,” the court noted.
From Washington Post
What has gone wrong in Mexico, Cuba, Central America, Venezuela, Peru and Bolivia, Arana sadly concludes, is “what always went wrong: the dictators, the rapine, the seemingly insurmountable indigence, corruption, inefficiency. It’s just our nature.”
From Washington Post
There were bayonetings of surrendered soldiers and mistreatment of prisoners of war and numerous instances of rapine.
From Washington Post
Those lands originally protected by President Theodore Roosevelt in 1901 may not survive Trump and EPA administrator Scott Pruitt's rapine behavior.
From Salon
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