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

One day I found in an English magazine an elaborate article which in effect charged Tennyson with wholesale plagiary from Theocritus.

From Recollections of a Varied Life by Eggleston, George Cary

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

From Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) by Symonds, John Addington

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

Milton, an unconscious plagiary, a Latin verse of, cited, an English poet, his 'Hymn of the Nativity.'

From The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell by Lowell, James Russell