Word of the Day for Thursday, September 22, 2011
rapine \RAP-in\, noun:
The act of plundering; the seizing and carrying away of another's property by force.
Da B.O. and his peeps be a rapine da evil rich peeps o dis kontry!
--Spy Maker, JSA's Blog
He who has once begun to live by rapine always finds reasons for taking what is not his.-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince (translated by N.H. Thomson)
Extortion and rapine are poor providers.-- Olaudah Equiano, Unchained Voices: an anthology of Black authors in the English-Speaking World of the 18th Century
The war, proclaimed William Lloyd Garrison, was one "of aggression, of invasion, of conquest, and rapine - marked by ruffianism, perfidy, and every other feature of national depravity."-- Robert W. Johannsen, "America's Forgotten War (Mexican War, 1846-1848)", The Wilson Quarterly, Spring 1996
Rapine derives from Latin rapina, from rapere, "to seize and carry off, to snatch or hurry away," which also gives us rapid.
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