rapine
/ˈɹæpaɪn/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.43 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "This countrey ſwarmes with vile outragious men, That liue by rapine and by lawleſſe ſpoile, Fit ſouldiers for the wicked Tamburlaine."
- "Good Rapine, stab him: he is a ravisher."
- "Justice and truth are the common ties of society; and therefore, even out-laws and robbers, who break with all the world besides, must keep faith and rules of equity amongst themselves, or else they cannot hold together. But will any one say, that those that live by fraud or rapine, have innate principles of truth and justice which they allow and assent to?"
- "And it was peculiar in their Temper, that they were fonder of what they could get by Rapine or Stealth at a greater diſtance, than much better Food provided for them at home."
- "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."
Etymology
From Middle English rapyne, from Old French rapine, from Latin rapīna, from rapiō. Doublet of ravine.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: rapyne, rapine, rapīna