plagiary

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The case follows that of the family of Marvin Gaye successfully suing Pharrell Williams and Robin Thicke for plagiary on their hit Blurred Lines.

From BBC • Oct. 15, 2015

He rates Scaliger for ignorance because he was evidently under the impression that Cardan was the first to draw a horoscope of Christ, and attacks Cardan chiefly on the score of plagiary.

From Jerome Cardan A Biographical Study by Waters, W. G. (William George)

It is sometimes admitted that Milton was a plagiary, but it is urged in extenuation that his plagiarisms were always reproduced in finer forms.

From Milton by Pattison, Mark

What he had of humorous or passionate, he seems to have had not from nature, but from other poets; if not always as a plagiary, at least as an imitator.

From Lives of the Poets, Volume 1 by Johnson, Samuel

Thus Mr. Pope was obliged to represent this gentleman as a plagiary, or to pass for one himself.

From The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volume IV by Cibber, Theophilus