Today's Word "rapine"
Published in Vocabulary
rapine \RAP-in\ (noun) - The act of plundering; the seizing and carrying away of another's property by force.
"Let us look again upon mankind: interest is stull the ruling motive, and the world is yet full of fraud and corruption, malevolence and rapine." -- Samuel Johnson, 'The Adventurer'
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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