Definitions for plagiary

plagiary pla·gia·ry

Spelling: [pley-juh-ree, -jee-uh-ree]
IPA: /ˈpleɪ dʒə ri, -dʒi ə ri/

Plagiary is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 194 anagrams from letters in plagiary (aagilpry).

Definitions for plagiary

noun

  1. plagiarism.
  2. a plagiarist.

Origin of plagiary

1590-1600; Latin plagiārius kidnapper, equivalent to plagi(um) kidnapping (akin to plaga snare) + -ārius -ary

Examples for plagiary

This fact may exempt him, even in the eyes of too patriotic American critics, from “the common blame of a plagiary.”

After all this, will any one accuse me for a plagiary, and that I steal from the most common places?

It may be that many a successful author has been a plagiarist, but no author ever succeeded because of his plagiary.

plagiary existed, and was very common, but was not known as a sin.

However, when Quinault said that a lady was in the case, the plagiary was forgiven.

There is no fear of plagiary; he cannot have said all; he cannot have said what I want to say.

Perhaps Ben is glancing at Shakespeare, who, if accused of plagiary by an angry rival, would merely laugh.

Yet the problem does not resolve itself into the simple question whether Pandolfini or Alberti was the plagiary.

The sin of plagiary is a development of modern civilisation.

However, it also was severely criticized as a plagiary of the Finnish epic poem Kalevala.

Word Value for plagiary
Scrable

14

Words with friends

16

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