Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act, practice, or gains of a freebooter.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act, practice, or gains of a freebooter; freebooting.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The act, practice, or gains of a
freebooter .
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Examples
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And now I had proof of Haluk freebootery in the inner galactic whorl to add to the pile of accumulating evidence against them, plus some interesting questions that needed answers:
Sagittarius Whorl May, Julian 2001
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Free discussion has replaced freebootery; skilled negotiation must replace the skill at arms that formerly won trading empires.
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He was attended by certain clans of the Highlands -- desperadoes used to freebootery from their infancy, and consequently to the use of arms, and possessed of a certain species of discipline.
The Romany Rye A Sequel to 'Lavengro' George Henry Borrow 1842
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They are twin-spirits, and should be friends, but that fortune hath differently cast their lot: but their names shall descend together to the latest days, as the flower of their age and of England: for in the pure principles of freebootery have they excelled all men; and to the principles of freebootery, diversely developed, belong all the qualities to which song and story concede renown. "
Maid Marian Thomas Love Peacock 1825
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They are twin-spirits, and should be friends, but that fortune hath differently cast their lot: but their names shall descend together to the latest days, as the flower of their age and of England: for in the pure principles of freebootery have they excelled all men; and to the principles of freebootery, diversely developed, belong all the qualities to which song and story concede renown. "
Maid Marian 1822
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