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Definition of Despoilments
1. despoilment [n] - See also: despoilment
Lexicographical Neighbors of Despoilments
Literary usage of Despoilments
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Christian Examiner (1854)
"Age comes in here also, and makes its despoilments, and leaves some things worse
than they were before. In saying this, we are not thinking chiefly of the ..."
2. Primitive Civilizations: Or, Outlines of the History of Ownership in Archaic by Edith Jemima Simcox (1894)
"The kingdoms of Syria and the Hittites must have suffered serious defeats and
despoilments, but it maybe doubted whether even Thothmes III. attempted much ..."
3. The Empresses of Rome by Joseph McCabe (1911)
"By fines, taxes, despoilments, and the unscrupulous ruin of his opponents, the
hated Gaul amassed wealth and power, and ruled like an autocrat. ..."
4. The Gospel in All Lands by Missionary Society, Methodist Episcopal Church (1900)
""Third, the fear of foreign despoilment of their country. Not so much such
despoilments as those at Formosa and ..."
5. New Essays Concerning Human Understanding by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Carl Immanuel Gerhardt (1916)
"They would be content to see them deprived of it, without thinking of profiting
from their despoilments, and indeed without being able to hope for it. ..."
6. Heredity and Morals as Affected by the Use and Abuse of the Sexual Instinct by James Foster Scott (1900)
"... and that its despoilments and ravages within her internal sexual organs and
peritoneal cavity were far more severe and fatal than those of syphilis. ..."
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