Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of taking away.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete The act of taking away.
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- noun obsolete The act of
taking away .
Etymologies
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Latin arripere, arreptum, to seize, snatch; ad + rapere to snatch. See rapacious.
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