plagiarism

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The Scots have cried foul at a new BBC sitcom set on the battlefields of Afghanistan – because it plagiarises the Beeb's own Gary: Tank Commander, a popular hit north of the border.

From The Guardian • Feb. 27, 2013

Apart from what he plagiarises, from what he borrows from ancient or exotically modern styles—he is a master in the art of copying,—there remains as his most individual quality a longing.…

From The Case Of Wagner, Nietzsche Contra Wagner, and Selected Aphorisms. by Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm

Another French work on the same subject, but including much about ladies, published about the year 1773, plagiarises largely from the Jesuit manual, but does not mention it.

From George Washington's Rules of Civility Traced to their Sources and Restored by Moncure D. Conway by Conway, Moncure Daniel

He translates; he borrows; he "plagiarises" about as much as is possible for anybody who is not a mere dullard to do.

From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 by Saintsbury, George

Plā′giarism, the act or practice of plagiarising; Plā′giarist, one who plagiarises; Plā′giary, one who steals the thoughts or writings of others and gives them out as his own: the crime of plagiarism.—adj. practising literary theft.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various