spoliation

English

Etymology

From Latin spoliatio.

Noun

spoliation (countable and uncountable, plural spoliations)

1. (archaic) The act of plundering or spoiling; robbery

   Synonyms: deprivation, despoliation

   • 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.

Derived terms

• writ of spoliation

Related terms

• despoil
• despolation
• spoil
• spoliate
• spoliative
• spoliator
• spoliatory
• spolium

Translations

plundering

• Bulgarian: ограбване (bg) n (ograbvane)
• Dutch: plundering (nl)
• Portuguese: espoliação (pt) f
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• Spanish: despojo (es) m, expoliación (es)

authorized plundering

• Bulgarian: плячкосване (bg) n (pljačkosvane)
• Dutch: vrijbuiterij
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destruction of evidence

• Dutch: bewijsvernietiging
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• German: Beweisvereitelung f

References

• “spoliation”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “spoliation”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• isopointal, positional

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French

Pronunciation

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Noun

spoliation f (plural spoliations)

1. spoliation

Further reading

• “spoliation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.