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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

The practice of stealing; theft; thievishness.

Among the Spartans,

thievery

was a practice morally good and honest.

South.

That which is stolen.

[Obs.]

Shak.

Noun.

The practice of stealing; theft. [See Theft.]

Among the Spartans, thievery was a practice morally good and honest.

That which is stolen.

thievery ‎(plural thieveries)

The act of theft, the act of stealing.
This instance of thievery will not be overlooked.
(obsolete) That which is stolen.
- 1602, William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida, IV. iv. 42:
  Injurious Time now, with a robber's haste, / Crams his rich thievery up, he knows not how;