What's the difference between plagiarist and plagiary?
Plagiarist
Definition:
(n.) One who plagiarizes; or purloins the words, writings, or ideas of another, and passes them off as his own; a literary thief; a plagiary.
Example Sentences:
(1) The High Line , the mile-long park created on an old elevated railway in Manhattan, is one of those once-in-a-decade projects that, like the 1990s Guggenheim in Bilbao, both captures the imagination of the world and offers limitless inspiration to plagiarists.
(2) The Private Eye headline: "The Bubonic Plagiarist – or There's Methodism in His Badness", appeared above a story that claimed: "After his latest [TW3] show, 400 people rang the BBC: three in favour, four against, and 393 to say they wrote the script."
(3) To borrow his description of Autolycus (in The Winter’s Tale ), our national playwright was a “snapper-up of unconsidered trifles”, denounced in his own time as a plagiarist (“an upstart crow, beautified with our feathers”), a writer of genius keenly alert to an extraordinary mix of cadences, ideas and emotions.
(4) Worse than that, he was nicknamed the "bubonic plagiarist", for allegedly appropriating Peter Cook 's gags and sketches from Beyond the Fringe for his television show That Was the Week That Was, and so piggybacking on the achievements of others.
Plagiary
Definition:
(v. i.) To commit plagiarism.
(n.) A manstealer; a kidnaper.
(n.) One who purloins another's expressions or ideas, and offers them as his own; a plagiarist.