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Reif vs Rief - What's the difference?

reif | rief |

Rief is a alternative form of reif.



As nouns the difference between reif and rief

is that reif is robbery while rief is alternative form of reif robbery.

reif

English

Alternative forms

* rief

Etymology 1

From (etyl) (m), (m), (m), from (etyl) . See also (l), (l).

Noun

(-)
  • Robbery.
  • * , a letter, recorded in The History of Scotland (John Hill Burton, 1873), volume 3, page 109:
    • The opposition, which, as we shall see, was headed by Archbishop Beaton, protested against the "daily slaughters, murders, reifs , thefts, depredations, and heavy attemptates, that are daily and hourly committed within this realm in fault of justice."
  • * Raphael Holinshed, Chronicles :
    • meaning to live by reif of other mennes goodes, wherein they have no manner of propertie.
  • * 1814 , Walter Scott, Waverley :
    • the lawless thieves, limmers, and broken men of the Highlands, had been in fellowship together by reason of their surnames for the committing of divers thefts, reifs , and herships.
  • * 1898 , Robert Borland, Border Raids and Reivers , page 42:
    • In the year 1567, in the first Parliament of James VI., an important Act was passed, entitled "Anent Theft and Receipt of Theft, Taking of Prisoners by Thieves, or Bands for Ransoms, and Punishment of the same." It relates especially to the thieves and "broken men" [who] commit daily "thefts, ' reifs , herschips, murders, and fire raisings" upon the peaceable subjects of the country.
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    rief

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • (robbery).
  • * 1567 July 19, Proclamation by the Earl of Bedford'', quoted in ''Calendar of State Papers, foreign series, of the Reign of Elizabeth, 1566-8 (1871), volume 10:
    • [The earl] commands all within his charge to abstain from reiving or stealing from the subjects of Scotland. For such riefs as have been made upon them, the Queen minds to have the same mended by justice.
  • * 1822 , Alexander Peterkin, Notes on Orkney and Zetland , page 61:
    • here the record is quite defaced and worn out, insomuch that only the words of the charge, viz. extortions, insolvencies, riefs , and oppressions, can be discovered
  • * (rfdate) James Taylor, The Pictorial History of Scotland , volume 2, page 133:
    • Murders, riefs , and spoliations became more common on the Borders after this raid than they had ever been before.

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