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rapinous

rapinous adjective: given to rapine (looting).

Adjective

rapinous (comparative more rapinous, superlative most rapinous)

  1. (obsolete) Given to rapine (looting).

Forms of rapinous

comparativemore rapinous
superlativemost rapinous

Origin of rapinous

From rapine + -ous.

Questions about rapinous

What does rapinous mean?
Rapinous means given to rapine (looting).
What part of speech is rapinous?
Rapinous is an adjective.

Words near rapinous in the dictionary

  1. rapingly
  2. rapings
  3. rapini
  4. rapining
  5. Rapinoe
  6. rapinous
  7. rapism
  8. rapismatid
  9. rapismatids
  10. rapist
  11. rapists

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