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

Yet the very few novels I have read, of later publications, incapacitates me again for detecting plagiary, or for making such comparisons as proper criticism may demand.

From A Publisher and His Friends Memoir and Correspondence of John Murray; with an Account of the Origin and Progress of the House, 1768-1843 by Smiles, Samuel

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

On a famous occasion Charles Reade drew a line between plagiary and justifiable borrowing.

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

Ariosto is a plagiary, the most so of all poets.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 330, April 1843 by Various