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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

 

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