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Synonyms for larceny
Grammar : Noun |
Spell : lahr-suh-nee |
Phonetic Transcription : ˈlɑr sə ni |
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Définition 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
- 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
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