Meaning of direption | Babel Free

Definitions

The act of despoiling, plundering, or snatching away.

countable, uncountable

Examples

“[T]heir hoſtile oppreſsions vvere increaſed by their domeſticke vexations, for that the vvhole Countrey by theſe continuall direptions, vvas utterly depriued of the ſtaffe of foode, hauing nothing left to prolong their life, but that only vvhat they got in hunting.”

“committing many direptions and outrages”

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