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plagiarism|ˈpleɪdʒɪərɪz(ə)m|
[f. as plagiary + -ism.]
1. The action or practice of plagiarizing; the wrongful appropriation or purloining, and publication as one's own, of the ideas, or the expression of the ideas (literary, artistic, musical, mechanical, etc.) of another.
1621Bp. R. Montagu Diatribæ 23 Were you afraid to bee challenged for plagiarisme? 1716M. Davies Athen. Brit. II. To Rdr. 46 A good Plea to any Charge of Plagiarism or Satyrism. 1753Johnson Adventurer No. 95 ⁋9 Nothing..can be more unjust than to charge an author with plagiarism merely because he..makes his personages act as others in like circumstances have done. 1820Hazlitt Lect. Dram. Lit. 257 If an author is once detected in borrowing, he will be suspected of plagiarism ever after. 1861Buckle Civiliz. II. vi. 542 A certain unity of design which is inconsistent with extensive plagiarism.
2. A purloined idea, design, passage, or work.
1797Monthly Mag. III. 260 He found the..song..to be ‘a most flagrant plagiarism from Handel’. 1850Maurice Mor. & Met. Philos. (ed. 2) I. 98 A Thaumaturgist whom they had created..to convince the world that the Christian church was a plagiarism. 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) I. p. xx, They are full of plagiarisms, inappropriately borrowed. |