Spoils vs Rapine - What's the difference?
spoils | rapine |
That which is taken from another by violence; especially, the plunder taken from an enemy; pillage; booty.
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
(spoil)
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 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)- "Gentle gales, Fanning their odoriferous wings, dispense Native perfumes, and whisper whence they stole Those balmy spoils." —Milton.
- to the victor belong the spoils
Verb
(head)- Milk spoils when left out too long.
rapine
English
Noun
(-)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.