purloining

verb

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of purloin

noun

1. theft

   “c. 1613–1621, Francis Bacon, The judicial charge upon the commission of Oyer and Terminer held for the verge of the Court […] I must require you to use diligence in presenting especially those purloinings and imbezlements, which are of plate, vessel, or whatsoever within the King's house.”