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Plagiarism   /plˈeɪdʒərˌɪzəm/   Listen
Plagiarism

noun
1.
A piece of writing that has been copied from someone else and is presented as being your own work.
2.
The act of plagiarizing; taking someone's words or ideas as if they were your own.  Synonyms: piracy, plagiarisation, plagiarization.





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"Plagiarism" Quotes from Famous Books



... was an admirable model for the old woman Joseph wished to paint. Coralie, a young actress of exquisite beauty who died in the flower of her youth, the mistress of Lucien de Rubempre, one of Joseph's friends, had given him the idea of the picture. This noble painting has been called a plagiarism of other pictures, while in fact it was a splendid arrangement of three portraits. Michel Chrestien, one of his companions at the Cenacle, lent his republican head for the senator, to which Joseph added a few mature tints, just as he exaggerated the expression of Madame ...
— The Celibates - Includes: Pierrette, The Vicar of Tours, and The Two Brothers • Honore de Balzac
... is fair to him to say that he made no public complaints, and that when some gutter-scribbler in 1810 made charges of plagiarism from him against Scott, he furnished Southey with the means of clearing him from all share in the matter (Lockhart, iii. 293; Southey's Life and Correspondence, iii. 291). But there is a suspicion of fretfulness even ...
— Sir Walter Scott - Famous Scots Series • George Saintsbury
... which accompanied the MS. of this novel, the Author gives a description of his literary method. We have only room for a few extracts. "I have been accused of plagiarism. I reply that the accusation is ridiculous. Nature is the great plagiarist, the sucker of the brains of authors. There is no situation, however romantic or grotesque, which Nature does not sooner or later appropriate. Therefore the more natural an author is, the more liable is he to envious ...
— Punch, or The London Charivari, Vol. 100., Jan. 17, 1891 • Various


Words linked to "Plagiarism" :   piece of writing, plagiaristic, plagiarisation, writing, copyright infringement, plagiarist, plagiarise, plagiarize, infringement of copyright, written material, plagiarization


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