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rapine

(n): the act of despoiling a country in warfare
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about 1 year ago brtom said:

... and on a heath beneath winking stars a fox, red reek of rapine in his fur, with merciless bright eyes scraped in the earth, listened, scraped up the earth, listened, scraped and scraped.
Joyce, Ulysses, 2

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