exspoliation

English

Etymology

From Latin exspoliatio, from exspoliare (“to spoil, to plunder”), from ex (“out”) + spoliare. See spoliate.

Noun

exspoliation (usually uncountable, plural exspoliations)

1. (obsolete) Spoliation.
   • 1825, Robert Leighton (abp. of Glasgow), John Norman Pearson, The Whole Works of the Most Reverend Father in God, Robert Leighton, page 430:

     If thou aspire to attain to the perfect knitting and union with God , know that it requireth a perfect exspoliation, and denudation, or bare nakedness, and utter forsaking of all sin, yea, of all creatures, and of thyself particularly: even that thy mind and understanding, thy affections and desires, thy memory and fancy, be made bare of all things in the world, and all sensual pleasures in them, so as thou wouldst be content that the bread which thou eatest had no more savour than a stone, and yet, for His honour and glory that created bread, thou are pleased that it savoreth well: but yet, from the delectation thou feelest in it, turn thy heart to His praises, and love that made it.

   • 1868, Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool, Proceedings - Volume 22, page 93:

     The only reference in these laws to religion is the 58th: “De incendio Ecclesiae sive homicidiis clericorum,” which enacts that the burning or exspoliation of a church shall be compensated by a fine of two hundred sols.

   • 1870, Sabine Baring Gould, In exitu Israel - Volume 1, page 212:

     Fontenay wrote in stronger terms: " The most revolting abuse is the miserable exspoliation of the commendatory abbeys."

   • 2003, Thomas L. Thompson, Jerusalem in Ancient History and Tradition, page 38:

     The exspoliation of the indigenous population of Palestine at the hands of Zionists, with an obvious reliance on the biblical narrative, appears to leave the Academy untouched.

Anagrams

• expoliations, expositional