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Definition of Despoiled
1. Adjective. Having been robbed and destroyed by force and violence. "The raped countryside"
Definition of Despoiled
1. Verb. (past of despoil) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Despoiled
1. despoil [v] - See also: despoil
Lexicographical Neighbors of Despoiled
Literary usage of Despoiled
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Institutes of the Christian Religion by Jean Calvin (1921)
"MAN, IN HIS PRESENT STATE, despoiled OF FREEDOM OF WILL, AND SUBJECTED TO A ...
whether we are despoiled of all freedom, and, if any particle of it yet ..."
2. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1900)
"... despoiled thieves of their gains under threats of arrest. Wild, however,
gradually dissociated himself from Hitchen, and built up a connection of his ..."
3. The History of British India by James Mill, Horace Hayman Wilson (1858)
"Agreement between Mr. Hastings and the Nabob.— The Begums despoiled.— Whether
the Begums incited Insurrection.—Alleged oppressions of Colonel Han- nay. ..."
4. The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England: To which is Added an by Edward Hyde Clarendon (1826)
"... and for a refuge to the poor protest- ants, who from all parts of the kingdom
flocked thither, despoiled, robbed, and stripped, with the sad relation of ..."
5. The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography: Being the History of the by James Terry White (1895)
"He saw his substance despoiled, his farms ravaged, and himself clutched by the
hand of disease. He died in Raleigh, NC, May 1, 1871. ..."
6. Matthew Paris's English History: From the Year 1235 to 1273 by Matthew Paris, John Allen Giles (1854)
"... that he would be despoiled of his superfluous wealth. Of the arrival of Brother
Mansuetus, a Minorite, on a mission from the pope. About the same time, ..."
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