Definitions for spoliation

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spoliation spo·li·a·tion

Spelling: [spoh-lee-ey-shuh n]

IPA: /ˌspoʊ liˈeɪ ʃən/

Spoliation is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 643 anagrams from letters in spoliation (aiilnoopst).

Definitions for spoliation

noun

1. the act or an instance of plundering or despoiling.
2. authorized plundering of neutrals at sea in time of war.
3. Law. the destruction or material alteration of a bill of exchange, will, or the like.
4. the act of spoiling or damaging something.

Origin of spoliation

1350-1400; Middle English Latin spoliātiōn- (stem of spoliātiō), equivalent to spoliāt(us) (past participle of spoliāre to spoil; see

Examples for spoliation

Why, for the same reason: they want to continue the spoliation of the people.

The Devil, you will say, because it is he who implants in our hearts the spirit of spoliation.

Ages of spoliation and cruelty and wrong had done their work.

Her ruse of spoliation within the law was evidence of her shrewdness, nothing more.

Yet the spoliation on the spot was emphasized and even put first in the demand.

The only difference is that spoliation has changed her agent.

But human reason cannot recognize this spoliation of the Deity.

spoliation not only displaces wealth, but always destroys a portion.

He declared that the rapacious course of the railroads in Georgia had been spoliation.

We believed this policy to be our only safeguard from spoliation, and in that we were right.