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Pillage vs Rapine - What's the difference?

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As verbs the difference between pillage and rapine

is that pillage is to loot or plunder by force, especially in time of war while rapine is to plunder.

As nouns the difference between pillage and rapine

is that pillage is the spoils of war while rapine is the seizure of someone's property by force; pillage, plunder.

pillage

English

Verb

(pillag)
  • (ambitransitive) To loot or plunder by force, especially in time of war.
  • * 1911 , ,
  • Archibald V. (1361-1397) was Count of Perigord. He was nominally under the lilies [France], but he pillaged indiscriminately in his county.

    Noun

    (-)
  • The spoils of war.
  • * Shakespeare
  • Which pillage they with merry march bring home.
  • The act of pillaging.
  • Noun

    (m)
  • looting
  • rapine

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • The seizure of someone's property by force; pillage, plunder.
  • * (1800-1859)
  • *:men who were impelled to war quite as much by the desire of rapine as by the desire of glory
  • *
  • *:The Bat—they called him the Bat. Like a bat he chose the night hours for his work of rapine ; like a bat he struck and vanished, pouncingly, noiselessly; like a bat he never showed himself to the face of the day.
  • *1951 , (Isaac Asimov), (1974 (Panther Books) Ltd publication), Part V: “The Merchant Princes”,
  • *:“You could join Wiscard’s remnants in the Red Stars. I don’t know, though, if you’d call that fighting or piracy. Or you could join our present gracious viceroy?—?gracious by right of murder, pillage, rapine , and the word of a boy Emperor, since rightfully assassinated.”
  • :(Shakespeare)
  • References

    * The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language , Fourth Edition (2000).

    Verb

    (rapin)
  • To plunder.
  • * , Hist. Richard III :
  • A Tyrant doth not only rapine his Subjects, but spoils and robs Churches.

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