spoliation
English
Noun
spoliation (countable and uncountable, plural spoliations)
- (archaic) The act of plundering or spoiling; robbery
- Synonyms: 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.
- 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
- writ of spoliation
Related terms
- despoil
- despolation
- spoil
- spoliate
- spoliative
- spoliator
- spoliatory
- spolium
Translations
plundering
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authorized plundering
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destruction of evidence
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References
- spoliation in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- spoliation in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
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