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Definition of Despoliations
1. despoliation [n] - See also: despoliation
Lexicographical Neighbors of Despoliations
Literary usage of Despoliations
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life by John Adams, Charles Francis Adams (1854)
"Indiscriminate despoliations on our commerce, grounded on the contemptuous opinion
that we are a divided, defenceless, and mercenary people, ..."
2. Slavery: Letters and Speeches by Horace Mann (1851)
"... which has despoiled three millions of the African race of all their liberties,
and is now intent on propagating other millions for new despoliations. ..."
3. Mechanics Magazine (1827)
"... persecutions, massacres, and despoliations, which, during so many thousand
years, have degraded the human species below the beasts of the field ! ..."
4. Scottish Annals from English Chroniclers A.D. 500 to 1286 by Alan Orr Anderson (1908)
"... and were acting hostilely, the fury of the Scots reviving broke out again and
took possession of Northumbria, exhausted by the cruellest despoliations. ..."
5. Speech of Horace Mann, of Massachusetts on the Subject of Slavery in the by Horace Mann (1850)
"... and is now intent on propagating other millions for new despoliations.
He claims, as the great bequest of the barons of Run- ..."
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