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

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

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

Should we say Lord Plunket had read these passages, and is thereby convicted of eloquent plagiary?

From Notes and Queries, Number 45, September 7, 1850 by Various

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

But here, while writing about plagiarism, I have been myself a plagiary; and it shall not remain without acknowledgment, having suffered somewhat in that sort myself.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine No. XVI.?September, 1851?Vol. III. by Various