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plagiaries

plagiaries is the plural of plagiary.

Meaning of plagiary

Noun

plagiary (countable and uncountable, plural plagiaries)

  1. The crime of literary theft; plagiarism.
    • accounted Plagiary1649, J[ohn] Milton, ΕΙΚΟΝΟΚΛΆΣΤΗΣ [Eikonoklástēs] […], London: […] Matthew Simmons, […], →OCLC
  2. (archaic) A plagiarist.
    • He [Ben Jonson] vvas not onely a profeſſed Imitator of Horace, but a learned Plagiary of all the others; you track him every vvhere in their Snovv: […]1668, John Dryden, Of Dramatick Poesie, an Essay, London: […] [Thomas Newcombe] for Henry Herringman, […], →OCLC, page 14
  3. (obsolete) A kidnapper.

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Questions about plagiaries

What is plagiaries the plural of?
Plagiaries is the plural of plagiary.

Words near plagiaries in the dictionary

  1. plages
  2. plaggic
  3. plagiaplite
  4. plagiarhythm
  5. plagiarhythms
  6. plagiaries
  7. plagiarisation
  8. plagiarisations
  9. plagiarise
  10. plagiarised
  11. plagiariser

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