The phrase "a pillaging" is not correct in standard English usage.
The term "pillaging" is typically used as a verb or in a gerund form, and it does not require an article like "a" before it.
Example: "The village suffered from pillaging during the war."
Alternatives: "a raid" or "an attack".
Groups of young men, some in uniform, embarked on a pillaging spree, meticulously combing through abandoned houses.
You have to go on a "pillaging and looting" raid into the work of archeologists, historians, anthropologists, economists, and political scientists who are studying groups around the world.
First stop is St Davids, where Warwick and son Harrison join Viking re-enactors for a pillaging trip around the city.
The German Oliver Kahn, now retired, had the aspect of a pillaging Teutonic warrior, and seemed to relish his own shock effect.
If a company traces your origins to a village on an island off the coast of Africa, or says you hail from a pillaging Viking, take it with a pinch of salt.
The 1996 novel Original Color, by Hugh Kennedy, a former employee of Arader's, depicted him as a pillaging "boss from hell".
Sheikh Saleh said the site needed to be protected by guards to stop a pillage of what remains of Nimrud.
(Your historical find might be considered a "pillage").
With apologies to Hillary (or her ghost writers), it takes a pillage.
Levine quotes It Takes a Pillage author Nomi Prins, a former Goldman Sachs managing director, to emphasize that banks will not act in the public good on their own.
Her other books include, Black Tuesday, a historical novel about the 1929 Crash, and the hard-hitting expose, It Takes a Pillage: Behind the Bonuses, Bailouts, and Backroom Deals from Washington to Wall Street.
