Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for PUR-LOIN'
PUR-LOIN', v.t. [Fr. pour and loin, far off. See Eloign.]
- Literally, to take or carry away for one's self; hence, to steal; to take by theft. Your butler purloins your liquor. – Arbuthnot.
- To take by plagiarism; to steal from books or manuscripts. – Dryden.
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