Word Meanings - DIREPTITIOUSLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database
With plundering violence; by violent injustice. Strype.
Related words: (words related to DIREPTITIOUSLY)
- PLUNDERER
One who plunders or pillages. - INJUSTICE
1. Want of justice and equity; violation of the rights of another or others; iniquity; wrong; unfairness; imposition. If this people resembled Nero in their extravagance, much more did they resemble and even exceed him in cruelty and injustice. - VIOLENT
probably akin to Gr. 1. Moving or acting with physical strength; urged or impelled with force; excited by strong feeling or passion; forcible; vehement; impetuous; fierce; furious; severe; as, a violent blow; the violent attack of a disease. Float - VIOLENCE
1. The quality or state of being violent; highly excited action, whether physical or moral; vehemence; impetuosity; force. That seal You ask with such a violence, the king, Mine and your master, with his own hand gave me. Shak. All the elements - VIOLENTLY
In a violent manner. - PLUNDERAGE
The embezzlement of goods on shipboard. Wharton. - PLUNDER
Etym: 1. To take the goods of by force, or without right; to pillage; to spoil; to sack; to strip; to rob; as, to plunder travelers. Nebuchadnezzar plunders the temple of God. South. 2. To take by pillage; to appropriate forcibly; as, the enemy