spoliation

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English

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Etymology

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From Latin spoliātiō, from spoliāre +‎ -tiō, from spolium (skin, hide, fell) +‎ -āre.

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spoliation (countable and uncountable, plural spoliations)

  1. (archaic) The act of plundering or spoiling; robbery
    Synonyms: deprivation, despoliation
    • 1832, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Heath's Book of Beauty, 1833, The Knife, page 121:
      The shop bore even more evident signs of spoliation—that reckless wastefulness which seems the constant companion of cruelty; but little of the grocery appeared to have been touched, excepting the sweet things.
    • 1852 March – 1853 September, Charles Dickens, chapter 1, in Bleak House, London: Bradbury and Evans, [], published 1853, →OCLC:
      In trickery, evasion, procrastination, spoliation, botheration, under false pretences of all sorts, there are influences that can never come to good.
  2. Robbery or plunder in times of war; especially, the authorized act or practice of plundering neutrals at sea.
  3. (law) The intentional destruction of or tampering with (a document) in such way as to impair evidentiary effect.

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spoliation f (plural spoliations)

  1. spoliation

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