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- noun Plural form of
pilfery .
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What notable robberies, pilferies, murders, rapes, and stealings of young children, burning, breaking, and disfiguring their limbs to make them pitiful in the sight of the people, I need not to rehearse; but for their idle rogueing about the country, the law ordaineth this manner of correction.
Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series) Thomas Malory Jean Froissart
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A further remark of Volpone on 'base pilferies,' and 'wholesome penance done for it,' may be taken as a hit against Hamlet's 'fingering' the packet to 'unseal their grand commission;' for which, in Jonson's view, he would be forced by his father confessor, in a well-regulated Roman Catholic State, to do penance.
Shakspere and Montaigne Jacob Feis
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What notable robberies, pilferies, murders, rapes, and stealings of young children, burning, breaking, and disfiguring their limbs to make them pitiful in the sight of the people, I need not to rehearse; but for their idle rogueing about the country, the law ordaineth this manner of correction.
Of Provision Made for the Poor. Chapter IX. [1577, Book III., Chapter 5; 1587, Book II., Chapter 10 1909
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[31] in the Turks 'galleys, when, indeed, were the truth known, they were the Christians' gallies, where very temperately they eat bread and drunk water, as a wholesome penance, [32] enjoined them by their confessors for base pilferies. '
Shakspere and Montaigne Jacob Feis
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