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1. A forcible or violent seizure of another person's property; a plundering: The marauding soldiers undertook a rapine of horses from the farmer.
2. The act of despoiling (plundering valuables) by force of a country during warfare: Some of the rapines of villages has been described in the writings of historical authors of those times.
3. Etymologically: from Middle English, from Old French, from Latin rapna, from rapere, "to seize, to take".
2. The act of despoiling (plundering valuables) by force of a country during warfare: Some of the rapines of villages has been described in the writings of historical authors of those times.
3. Etymologically: from Middle English, from Old French, from Latin rapna, from rapere, "to seize, to take".
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rap-, rav-
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“rapine”
(Latin: seize, snatch, plunder; grappling hook, drag; seizure, robbery, rapine, booty; ravish)