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PLUNDER

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Originally appearing in Volume V21, Page 856 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PLUNDER  , to rob, to pillage, especially in

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war . The word came into
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English usage directly from Ger. plundern (derived from a substantive Plunder meaning "
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household stuff,"
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bed-clothes, clothing, &c.), particularly with reference to the pillaging of the
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Thirty Years' War .
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Thomas May (
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History"'of the
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Long
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Parliament, 1647; quoted in the New English
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Dictionary) says: " Many Tonnes and Villages he (
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Prince
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Rupert) plundered, which is to say robb'd, for at that
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time first was the word plunder used in
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England, being
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borne in
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Germany." The New English Dictionary's earliest
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quotation is from the
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Swedish Intelligencer (1632) .

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