spoliation
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin spoliātiō, from spoliāre + -tiō, from spolium (“skin, hide, fell”) + -āre.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˌspəʊliˈeɪʃən/
Audio (Southern England): (file) Audio (General American): (file)
Noun
[edit]spoliation (countable and uncountable, plural spoliations)
- The action of ruining or destroying something.
- 1955 July, D. S. Barrie, “Railways of the Bridgend District”, in Railway Magazine, page 449:
- There is much sad evidence, too, of the spoliation and dereliction of vanished industry: tips, slag-heaps and derelict colliery-screens among which the ubiquitous, nomad mountain sheep graze unconcernedly.
- (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.
- 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.
Derived terms
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[edit]Translations
[edit]plundering
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authorized plundering
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destruction of evidence
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References
[edit]- William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “spoliation”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
- “spoliation”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Anagrams
[edit]French
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Noun
[edit]spoliation f (plural spoliations)
Further reading
[edit]- “spoliation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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