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• n  the act of despoiling a country in warfare

• Almost a millennium later, in 1527 after plunder and rapine by Charles V's troops, Rome's population stood at 32,000.
• The end of civil war in 1949 left Greece's jails crammed with political prisoners under sentence of death by military courts for murder, pillage, rapine and other crimes incidental .
• Every Fascist and Communist will try to participate in a filthy orgy of rapine upon your industries.

• rape

Quotes

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• Horatio Seymour in World Socialist Web Site
  For example in New York, the Democratic candidate for governor, Horatio Seymour, denounced emancipation as "a proposal for the butchery of women and children, for scenes of lust and rapine, for arson and murder unparalleled in the history of the...
• David Brooks in Christian Science Monitor
  Brooks quotes from an essay by Elie Kedourie that, in Brooks's words, "shows the whole history of Iraq is a story of 'bloodshed, treason and rapine.' As a result, we need to change our mentality, scale back to more realistic expectations."