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Webster 1828 Edition

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Feloniously taking from the person of another; putting him in fear; stripping; plundering; taking from another unlawfully or by wrong or oppression.

robbing

robbing ‎(plural robbings)

robbery
- 1985, David-Hillel Ruben, The Metaphysics of the Social World (page 141)
  Consider the first, allegedly contrastive fact, that there were some bank robbings by Sutton rather than no robbings at all by Sutton.