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Spoilation

noun
1.
The act of stripping and taking by force.  Synonyms: despoilation, despoilment, despoliation, spoil, spoliation.






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... suitors, threadbare and slipshod, begging or borrowing their daily bread, recall Charles Dickens' portraiture of the Jarndyce vs. Jarndyce Chancery suite, which had become so complicated that no one alive knew what it meant. The French spoilation claims that were being vigorously prosecuted in 1827 are yet undetermined in 1886. None of the original claimants survive, but they have left heirs and legatees, executors and assignees, who have perennially presented their cases, and who are now indulging ...
— Perley's Reminiscences, Vol. 1-2 - of Sixty Years in the National Metropolis • Benjamin Perley Poore



Words linked to "Spoilation" :   despoilment, spoil, pillage, spoliation, despoilation, despoliation, plundering, pillaging



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