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Definition of Spoliating
1. spoliate [v] - See also: spoliate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Spoliating
Literary usage of Spoliating
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Royal Commission: The London City Livery Companies' Vindication (1885)
"CHAPTER III Greatness of the prize offered the freebooters in spoliating the
Companies—Freemasons' Societies marked as next objects for ..."
2. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1835)
"... and so completely were they resolved to employ the practical benefit only as
a pretext for the spoliating measure, that they would not accept the former ..."
3. Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856: From Gales and by United States Congress, Thomas Hart Benton (1858)
"... it would have applied to Great Britain, or any other country whose subjects
or citizens are unlawfully spoliating our commerce—as he believed that the ..."
4. The History of England from the Year 1830-1874 by William Nassau Molesworth (1874)
"We have heard a good deal about the injustice of spoliating England for the sake
of Scotland and Ireland; but the honourable member who introduced that ..."
5. The History of England from the Year 1830-1874 by William Nassau Molesworth (1882)
"We have heard a good deal about the injustice of spoliating England for the sake
of Scotland and Ireland; but the honourable member who introduced that ..."
6. The History of England from the Year 1830-1874 by William Nassau Molesworth (1874)
"We have heard a good deal about the injustice of spoliating England for the sake
of Scotland and Ireland; but the honourable member who ..."
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