Reives vs Reaves - What's the difference?
reives | reaves |
(reive)
* 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:
* 2011 , Mark Richards, Hadrian's Wall Path: Two-way national trail description (ISBN 1849654263), page 102:
* 2014 , Peter T. Leeson, Anarchy Unbound (ISBN 1139916262):
(reave)
(archaic) To plunder, pillage, rob, pirate, or remove.
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* 1997 , Lawrence R. Schehr, Rendering French Realism (ISBN 0804780161), page 18:
(archaic) To split, tear, break apart.
As verbs the difference between reives and reaves
is that reives is (reive) while reaves is (reave).reives
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*reive
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- [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.
- Spine-chilling tales of reiving raids are a legendary legacy of these violent times, when careless murder, theft and pillage were everyday professions.
- So, although many borderers regularly engaged in reiving , most were also part-time agriculturalists, raising crops such as oats and rye, as well as livestock.
reaves
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* * *reave
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Etymology 1
(etyl) reven, from (etyl) 'to roughen', Sanskrit (term) 'to make suffer'). See (m) and (m).Alternative forms
* reiveVerb
- And I for one am not convinced of the innocence of the model: it is as if we let a criminal make up the law as he or she ambles along, reaving right and left.