Definition of Purloined

1. Verb. (past of purloin) ¹

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Definition of Purloined

1. purloin [v] - See also: purloin

Lexicographical Neighbors of Purloined

purler
purlers
purlicue
purlicued
purlicues
purlieu
purlieus
purlieux
purlin
purline
purlines
purling
purlings
purlins
purloin
purloined (current term)
purloiner
purloiners
purloining
purloinment
purloinments
purloins
purloo
purls
purly
puro
purocoll
puromycin
puromycine
puromycins

Literary usage of Purloined

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Short-story by William Patterson Atkinson (1916)
"Well, then; I have received personal information, from a very high quarter, that a certain document of the last importance has been purloined from the royal ..."

2. The History of Modern Europe: With an Account of the Decline & Fall of the by William Russell, Charles Coote (1822)
"... if the duke of Wellington had not lent the high authority of his name and the effective aid of his soldiers, for the removal of the purloined property. ..."

3. The History of Modern Europe: And a View of the Progress of Society from the by William Russell (1837)
"... if the duke of Wellington had not lent the high authority of his name, and the effective aid of his soldiers, for the removal of the purloined property. ..."

4. A Treatise on the Law of Master and Servant: Including Therein Masters and by Charles Manley Smith (1860)
"... terials as aforesaid, by persons who sell them knowing them to have selling, been purloined or embezzled ; be it therefore further enacted, that J^. ..."

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