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# The BFD Word of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/the-bfd-word-of-the-day-492/
- Published: 2021-06-04T18:15:00.000Z
- Updated: 2021-04-22T18:25:50.000Z
- Author: David Theobald
- Tags: General, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 01:54

The word for today is…

purloin (verb) –  
: to appropriate wrongfully and often by a breach of trust

Source : [Merriam -Webster](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/purloin?ref=goodoil.news)

Etymology : The word purloin features in the title of a famous Edgar Allan Poe story in its past tense form: “The Purloined Letter” was included in Poe’s 1845 Tales, and involves the search for a letter that a cabinet minister has stolen and is now using to blackmail the rightful owner, an unnamed woman of royalty. When Poe opted for ­purloin for his story, he was employing a term in use since the 15th century with the meaning “to put away; to inappropriately take or make use of.” The word had earlier use, now obsolete, with the meaning “to set aside; to render inoperative or ineffectual,” a meaning that links more clearly to the word’s Anglo-French origin: purluigner means “to prolong, postpone, set aside,” and comes from pur-, meaning “forward,” and luin, loing, meaning “at a distance.” Its ultimate root is Latin longus, long, meaning “long.”

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