The Only Use of
purloin
in
Jane Eyre
- I must be served at the fireside, she said; and she placed before me a little round stand with my cup and a plate of toast, absolutely as she used to accommodate me with some privately purloined dainty on a nursery chair: and I smiled and obeyed her as in bygone days.†
p. 262.2purloined = stole or stolen
Definition:
to steal -- especially in violation of trust