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Antonyms for larceny

Grammar : Noun
Spell : lahr-suh-nee
Phonetic Transcription : ˈlɑr sə ni


Definition of larceny

Origin :
  • late 15c., with -y (3) + Anglo-French larcin (late 13c.), from Old French larrecin, larcin "theft, robbery" (11c.), from Latin latrocinium "robbery, freebooting, highway-robbery, piracy," from latro "robber, bandit," also "hireling, mercenary," ultimately from a Greek source akin to latron "pay, hire, wages," from a suffixed form of PIE root *le- "to get."
  • noun theft
Example sentences :
  • The father and mother looked as if they had been convicted of larceny.
  • Extract from : « Watch Yourself Go By » by Al. G. Field
  • If an attempt to steal results in carrying off the owner's goods, it is larceny.
  • Extract from : « The Common Law » by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Removing hats is larceny, and you'll get six months for it.'
  • Extract from : « The Magic Pudding » by Norman Lindsay
  • But I am sure Victor de Mauleon was not the man to commit a larceny.
  • Extract from : « The Parisians, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
  • Wen we got to the stashun he preferred a charge of larceny gainst me.
  • Extract from : « The Bad Boy At Home » by Walter T. Gray
  • Were the fleets of Holland, France, and Spain destroyed by larceny?
  • Extract from : « Peter Plymley's Letters » by Sydney Smith
  • It is "business," and I am only sorry to say that what is known as business is too often larceny.
  • Extract from : « Twenty Years a Detective in the Wickedest City in the World » by Clifton R. Wooldridge
  • It is larceny all the way down, according to the amount of the spoil.
  • Extract from : « Nasby in Exile » by David R. Locke
  • Industry always has been and always will be the enemy of larceny.
  • Extract from : « The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 11 (of 12) » by Robert G. Ingersoll
  • As a rule, what would be larceny in one would be larceny in the other.
  • Extract from : « Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 16, Slice 2 » by Various

Synonyms for larceny

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