direption

plural direptions

1. countableobsoleteuncountableThe act of despoiling, plundering, looting, or taking away.

   committing many direptions and outrages

   1641, Thomas Heywood, The Life of Merlin: Surnamed Ambrosius

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   [T]heir hoſtile oppreſsions vvere increaſed by their domeſticke vexations, for that the vvhole Countrey by theſe continuall direptions, vvas utterly depriued of the ſtaffe of foode, hauing nothing left to prolong their life, but that only vvhat they got in hunting.

   1611, Iohn Speed [i.e., John Speed], “But First of the Downe-fall of Britaine”, in The History of Great Britaine under the Conquests of yͤ Romans, Saxons, Danes and Normans. […], London: […] William Hall and John Beale, for John Sudbury and George Humble, […], →OCLC, book VII ([The Saxons] […]), paragraph 2, page 281, column 2