despoilment

English

Etymology

despoil +‎ -ment

Noun

despoilment (countable and uncountable, plural despoilments)

1. The act of despoiling; a plundering; despoliation.
   • 1994: Noah M. Lemos, Intrinsic Value

     On such a view, the despoilment of pristine wilderness is the loss of something intrinsically good.

Translations

act of plundering

• Bulgarian: ограбване (bg) (ograbvane), плячкосване (bg) (pljačkosvane)
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References

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