Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun In international law, the right of a belligerent to seize and use the property of a neutral where that property is within the belligerent's jurisdiction, there is pressing need, and compensation is provided.
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- noun The
right of agovernment etc., in time ofwar , to seize, use or destroy property of abelligerent orneutral state, providedcompensation is paid
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Late Latin angaria, service to a lord, from Greek angareia, impressment for public service, from angaros, conscript courier; perhaps of Iranian origin and akin to Greek angelos, messenger.]
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Examples
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But I suppose I shouldn't carp, no matter how angary you make me.
Making Light: Boomdeyada boomdeyada boomdeyada boomdeyada 2010
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These articles seem to sanction the right of angary against neutral property, while limiting it as against both belligerent and neutral property.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1 Various
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If God don't want this Babies alive, God would take them. maybe some people are angary because it did not happen you! you!
knitandpurl commented on the word angary
"She supposed it was inevitable that, in due time, these men would take those liberties with her that have ever been claimed as angary by irregular fighting men, who have willfully severed themselves from the softening feminine influence of civilized society, with those women who have had the misfortune to become their captives."
The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson, p 469 of the Spectra trade paperback
May 26, 2016