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

To draw material from a heterogeneous work—to found, for instance, the play of Coriolanus upon Plutarch's Life—is justifiable: to take from a homogeneous work—to enrich your drama from another man's drama—is plagiary.

From Adventures in Criticism by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir

He was not only a professed imitator of HORACE, but a learned plagiary of all the others.

From An English Garner Critical Essays & Literary Fragments by Arber, Thomas Seccombe, Professor

Franck, as we saw, called Walton ‘a plagiary.’

From Introduction to the Compleat Angler by Lang, Andrew

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