pillagingn.
/ˈpɪlᵻdʒɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈpɪlədʒɪŋ/ The action of plundering, looting, or stealing from a place or person; robbery.
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the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > robbery > spoliation or depredation > [noun]
purchasec1325
ridding1347
riflinga1350
despoilingc1374
preya1375
spoilingc1380
pillagea1393
shavaldrya1400
destrition14..
pillingc1400
pillery1433
spulyieingc1440
rapinea1450
spoliationc1460
depopulation1462
spulyie1464
depredation1483
despoil1483
predationa1500
pilferya1513
pollinga1513
spoil1532
pilling and pollinga1535
pilfering1548
expilation1563
rapt1584
escheat1587
fleecing1593
spoilage1597
depilation1611
manubiary1616
pillaging1629
plundering1632
exspoliation1634
peeling1641
despoliation1658
plunder1661
plunderage1700
spoliage1806
despoilment1822
1629 J. Wadsworth Eng. Spanish Pilgrime 8 For feare hee should loose the pillaging of the other.
a1678 A. Marvell Upon Appleton House in Misc. Poems (1681) 91 The Women that with forks it fling Do represent the Pillaging.
1740 C. Davies Life & Adventures i. 47 We ravaged the Countries of Berg, Cologne and Cleves, and wasted them with pillaging and Contribution.
1753 J. Warton in C. Pitt tr. Virgil Æneid ii, in J. Warton et al. tr. Virgil Wks. II. 144 (note) The pillaging of the palaces and temples.
1807 R. Heber Jrnl. 20 Aug. in A. Heber Life R. Heber (1830) I. ii. 68 The whole building is much defaced by different conflagrations, pillaging, and by attempts to beautify it.
1870 Daily News 3 Sept. 5 The pillaging of provision waggons by MacMahon's own troops.
1907 Westm. Gaz. 28 Aug. 5/1 Pillaging is a crime which is severely punished.
1991 Constr. Weekly 27 Mar. 11/3 Building plans systematically destroyed by Iraqi pillaging.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
pillagingadj.
/ˈpɪlᵻdʒɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈpɪlədʒɪŋ/ Given to robbery, plundering, looting, or stealing.
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the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > robbery > spoliation or depredation > [adjective]
ravenousc1425
rapinous1484
polling1526
spoiling1565
predatory1589
pilling1590
spoilful1590
plundering1641
vulturian1659
predatitious1660
pillagingc1670
vulturine1721
predal1737
depredatory1771
spoliatory1790
predatorial1791
plunderous1797
spoliating1840
accipitral1842
despoiling1859
spoliative1875
predative1920
prehensile1927
c1670 A. Wood Life Apr. anno 1645 This is that captaine Bunce, who shot the pillaging Scot cal'd major Jecamiah Abercromy.
1807 I. B. Davis Anc. & Mod. Hist. Nice i. 9 The library has escaped the pillaging hands of..revolutionists.
1846 C. Dickens Pictures from Italy 231 Despoiled by pillaging Popes and fighting Princes.
1875 C. Gordon Let. 1 Nov. in More about Gordon (1894) 152 A pillaging horde of brigands.
1943 A. Ridler Nine Bright Shiners 46 To a painter's pillaging eye.
1993 A. Wells Viking Magic iii. 33 The modern Dane..appeared not to have inherited a great deal from his pillaging ancestors!
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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