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despoliation|dɪˌspəʊlɪˈeɪʃən| [ad. L. dēspoliātiōn-em, n. of action from dēspoliāre to despoil.] The action of despoiling; despoilment.
1657Phillips, Despoliation, a robbing or spoiling. 1658Ibid., Dispoliation. 1830J. G. Strutt Sylva Brit. 136 The Wallace Oak seems destined..to share their fate of despoliation. 1894J. Batten Hist. Coll. S. Somerset 110 The despoliation of alien priories in the time of Henry V. |