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| Pillaging and looting |
| Author: | Adam |
| Date: | Tuesday, 30th May 2006 11:28 |
| Views: | 1,515 (excluding Digests and RSS feeds) |
| Category: | Language, Education, Arts and Events | | URL: | http://www.freepint.com/go/b41551 |
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What is the difference between pillaging and looting. The definitions. Does anybody have a more useful defintion /seperation than thse below.
Thanks,
Adam
pillage
• verb rob or steal with violence, especially in wartime.
• noun the action of pillaging.
— DERIVATIVES pillager noun.
— ORIGIN Old French, from piller ‘to plunder’.
loot
• noun 1 private property taken from an enemy in war or stolen by thieves. 2 informal money.
• verb steal goods from somewhere, especially during a war or riot.
— DERIVATIVES looter noun.
— ORIGIN Sanskrit, ‘rob’.
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 | Pillaging and looting | | What is the difference between pillaging and looting. The definitions. Does anybody have a more useful defintion /seperation than ... |
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Adam |
30/05/06 11:28 |
41551 |
 | Re: Pillaging and looting | | From the OED: "Loot" dates from the mid-eighteenth century and "pillage" from the late sixteenth. The two have common synonyms. ... |
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James Mote |
02/06/06 17:27 |
41747 |
| | Re: Pillaging and looting | | This may be entirely out of my own head and unsupported by literary warrant, but to my mind pillaging implies ... |
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Patrick Wallace |
01/06/06 15:37 |
41648 |
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Ada |
02/06/06 15:03 |
41721 |
| | Re: Pillaging and looting | | Pillaging is used more in the context of armed conflict, war or civil war while looting during a civil disturbance. ... |
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Leon |
02/06/06 15:24 |
41722 |
| | Re: Pillaging and looting | | So perhaps another factor is that "pillaging" could be organised and sanctioned by some authority, as against an enemy, but ... |
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Patrick Wallace |
03/06/06 16:14 |
41822 |
| | Re: Pillaging and looting | | Yes, and much earlier as in the case of archaological sites, say in Greece and Egypt, looted by colonial archaelogists ... |
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Leon |
03/06/06 17:40 |
41823 |
| | Re: Pillaging and looting | | I always imagined pillaging was what invading forces did to standing crops - helping themselves to the harvests, etc.
Looting suggests ... |
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Atalanta |
31/05/06 09:50 |
41581 |
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