Rapine is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for RAPINE in dictionary:

VERB:
• To plunder.
NOUN:
• the taking of property by force
• pillage or plundering
• The act of plundering; the seizing and carrying away of things by force; spoliation; pillage; plunder.
• Ravishment; rape.
• the act of despoiling a country in warfare
• the violent seizure of someone's property

Words related to RAPINE

rapines9

Words that contain RAPINE

rapines9 grapiness12 parapineal14 nevirapine15 grapinesses14 nevirapines16

How to use RAPINE in a sentence

• The spirit of rapine, always too prevalent under the strongest government of those times, was now universal when the government was fighting for its own existence.
• He could not believe that the Almighty Being, who had forbidden the practice of rapine and bloodshed, had made rapine and bloodshed necessary to any part of his universe.
• Hence, extraordinary scenes of rapine and murder would be occasioned in Africa.
• They then began a scene of rapine and destruction unequalled in the annals of these desperate wars.
• His hands opened and closed, as if striving to reach and clutch something beyond flame of battle, scenes of rapine.
• His was the lean ship, and his the seven other lean ships that had made the foray, fled the rapine, and won through the storm.
• There is no reason for reciting in full the countless deeds of rapine and murder.
• The ferocity of our ancestors, as of all other nations, produced not fraud, but rapine.
• Think on their rapine, falsehood, cruelty, And that what once they were, they still would be.
• To found any right in force, is to frustrate all right, and involve every thing in confusion, violence, and rapine.
• Nixon should have uplifted the standards of a new crusade against that handful of great robbers who, making Tammany their stronghold, issued forth to a rapine of the town.
• They drew their own feather to them, promising evil knows what freedom for rapine.
• In woods and wilds thy monarchy maintain, Where valiant beasts, by force and rapine, reign.
• Whatever their conscience may be, whatever may be the nature of their moral rules, rapine and murder are certainly not forbidden by them, or the law is not obeyed.
• Each hour, dark fraud, Or open rapine, or protected murder, Cries out against them.
• The land reeked with carnage, rapine, murder, fire and famine.
• When they saw such members as were employed in committees and civil offices accumulate fortunes, they accused them of rapine and public plunder.
• The protestant subjects of Ireland were extremely disgusted at these concessions made in favour of vanquished rebels, who had exercised such acts of cruelty and rapine.
• This privilege was become a terrible nuisance, inasmuch as it afforded protection to the most atrocious criminals, who filled the city with rapine and murder.
• I do not like to think of the possible brutality that might have lighted on many hospitable households in blood-shedding or rapine.
• A scene representing a band of brigands in their mountain fastness, on the watch for plunder and rapine.
• We fall into vain lamenting over this red rapine and wrath, until we divine the genius and secret purpose of that wonderful epoch, so wholly different in inspiration from our own.
• They never obeyed any one else, and left a trail of murder and rapine behind them.
• Like many others of his class in the old regime, when the Revolution broke, he was forced to degrade himself and mingle with the evil elements that were bent on loot and rapine.
• Hence extraordinary scenes of rapine, and murder, would be occasioned in Africa.
• Plunder and rapine indeed appeared to be the object of the crusaders.
• Sir, it was not until after two hundred years discovered, that, by an eternal law, Providence had decreed vexation to violence, and poverty to rapine.
• Then what a carnival of lust, rapine and bloody murder! Man was broken on the wheel of power and thwarted Hope sat brooding in his little house.
• But was the state of France so wretched and undone, that no other resource but rapine remained to preserve its existence? On this point I wish to receive some information.

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