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rapine::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | rape |
| Type of | pillage, pillaging, plundering |
Examples of rapine
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Are we now a desolate husk of a country, sucked dry by Eduardo Saverin's rapine?
From the economist.com
It is as if some medievel Scotts were to blame some medievel English for rapine and pillage.
From the economist.com
The Frenchified vikings are regarded as pretty brutish and rapine in Ireland where they destroyed more than they built.
From the economist.com
It was Ivan the Terrible's reign that first made the Kremlin's power synonymous with the rapine and exploitation of the Russian people.
From the theatlantic.com
The king permitted the slaughter and rapine of the port's inhabitants to continue for three days before he finally called an end to it.
From the en.wikipedia.org
This has initiated the Obama Pelosi rapine about to be unleashed on the economy of stealing the last dimes from this FDR march into communism.
From the washingtontimes.com
Like Italy in June 1940, Japan in December 1941 decided that the old colonial powers'difficulties in Europe exposed their remoter properties to rapine.
From the nytimes.com
Pursuing self-interest without rapine and pillage of the weak could someday become a reality if their experiment spreads to other parts of the world.
From the economist.com
In 1156 Raynald's forces attacked Cyprus, ravaging the island over a three week period, rapine, slaughtering, and plundering its citizens.
From the en.wikipedia.org
- Rape: the act of despoiling a country in warfare
- Daniel Rapine (born, June 11, 1768 - died, July 28 or July 29, 1826) was the second mayor of Washington, D.C., elected by the city council in June 1812 and serving for one year.
- The seizure of one's property by force; plunder
- Noun - 1. the act of plundering; the seizing and carrying away of things by force; spoliation; pillage; plunder 2. [obsolete] ravishment; rape
