"Rapine" vs. "Raping"

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Having looked these up, I noticed that “rapine” is the act of plundering property (thus
a noun). In the past I have been puzzled when people say “rapine and pillaging”
instead of “raping and pillaging”, since I thought the former was incorrect both
grammatically AND contextually (a misspelling IOW and/or a redundancy). Well I
was wrong on one count then FWIW…

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Since there is no Question evident, let’s slide this over to MPSIMS.

samclem

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I’ve never once heard “rapine and pillaging”. I suspect you misheard. They’re not that different in sound, after all.

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http://armchaircapitalists.blogspot.com/2006/05/so-word-of-day-is-useful-sometimes.html