Rapine vs Arpine - What's the difference?
rapine | arpine |
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
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*: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)
To plunder.
* , Hist. Richard III :
As nouns the difference between rapine and arpine
is that rapine is the seizure of someone's property by force; pillage, plunder while arpine is obsolete form of arpent.As a verb rapine
is to plunder.rapine
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(-)References
* The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language , Fourth Edition (2000).Verb
(rapin)- A Tyrant doth not only rapine his Subjects, but spoils and robs Churches.