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Webster 1913 Edition


Plagiarism

Pla′gia-rism

(plā′jȧ-rĭz’m or plā′jĭ-ȧ-rĭz’m; 277)
,
Noun.
[Cf. F.
plagiarisme
.]
1.
The act or practice of plagiarizing.
2.
That which is plagiarized; a work which has been plagiarized.

Webster 1828 Edition


Plagiarism

PLA'GIARISM

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Noun.
[from plagiary.] The act of purloining another man's literary works, or introducing passages from another man's writings and putting them off as one's own; literary theft.