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Definition of Despoilment
1. Noun. The act of stripping and taking by force.
Generic synonyms: Pillage, Pillaging, Plundering
Derivative terms: Despoil, Despoil, Despoil, Despoil, Spoil, Spoil, Spoil
Definition of Despoilment
1. n. Despoliation.
Definition of Despoilment
1. Noun. The act of despoiling; a plundering; despoliation. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Despoilment
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Despoilment
Literary usage of Despoilment
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Great Issues: Reprints of Some Editorials from the American, 1897-1900 by Wharton Barker (1902)
"... is no crime under the laws of Christianity, by calling upon the poor to submit
contentedly as they may, but, above all, peacefully, to such despoilment! ..."
2. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1896)
"... that this happy order is based not upon desire but disdain of riches ; not
upon hatred of poverty, but upon love of it ; not upon despoilment of others, ..."
3. Renaissance Types by William Samuel Lilly (1901)
"... but upon love of it; not upon despoilment of others, but upon despoilment of
self. It is a Communism which reproduces, in the realm of More's fantasy, ..."
4. The Pamphleteer by Abraham John Valpy (1824)
"... long course of *:a» and speculative policy baa involved the country, that she
must either cutting- submit to a progressive despoilment of ten, fifteen, ..."
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