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Spoils vs Rapine - What's the difference?

spoils | rapine |

As verbs the difference between spoils and rapine

is that spoils is (spoil) while rapine is .

As a noun spoils

is that which is taken from another by violence; especially, the plunder taken from an enemy; pillage; booty.

spoils

English

Noun

(en-plural noun)
  • That which is taken from another by violence; especially, the plunder taken from an enemy; pillage; booty.
  • "Gentle gales, Fanning their odoriferous wings, dispense Native perfumes, and whisper whence they stole Those balmy spoils." —Milton.
  • Public offices and their benefits regarded as the peculiar property of a successful party or faction, to be bestowed for its own advantage; -- commonly in the plural; as
  • to the victor belong the spoils

    Verb

    (head)
  • (spoil)
  • Milk spoils when left out too long.

    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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