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brigandage|ˈbrɪgəndɪdʒ|
[a. 15th c. F. brigandage, f. brigand; see prec. and -age.]
1. The practice of brigands; highway-robbery, freebooting, pillage; † concr. an incursion, depredation by brigands (obs.).
1600Holland Livy xxxviii. xlv. 1011 e, A privat brigandage and robberie. 1728Morgan Algiers II. v. 318 The Corsairs of Barbary, have extended their Brigandages even upon the Coasts of Provence. 1826Scott Quentin D. i, The brigandage of the Free Companies. 1884Mahaffy in Contemp. Rev. XLVI. 96 Brigandage..was too often the outcome of shocking tyranny and injustice.
2. Brigands collectively.
1875Merivale Gen. Hist. Rome i. (1877) 4 A stronghold for the unsettled brigandage of the country round. |