spoliation
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Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
spoliation (plural spoliations)
- The act of plundering or spoiling; robbery; deprivation; despoliation.
- 1852, Charles Dickens, Bleak House, ch. 1:
- In trickery, evasion, procrastination, spoliation, botheration, under false pretences of all sorts, there are influences that can never come to good.
- 1852, Charles Dickens, Bleak House, ch. 1:
- Robbery or plunder in times of war; especially, the authorized act or practice of plundering neutrals at sea.
- (law) The intentional destruction of or tampering with (a document) in such way as to impair evidentiary effect.
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Translations[edit]
plundering
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authorized plundering
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destruction of evidence
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References[edit]
- spoliation in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
- spoliation in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
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French[edit]
Noun[edit]
spoliation f (plural spoliations)
