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Despoliation

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






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"Despoliation" Quotes from Famous Books



... Mahratta; they had groaned beneath the exactions of the Great Moguls, plundering viceroys and robber chiefs; they had paid tribute to Aurungzebe and to Hyder Ali, but here we are told they never experienced such tyranny and pitiless despoliation as under the rule of Christian England, and this upon the testimony of an Englishman! Now that British preachers and pamphleteers are agonizing over Mohammedan atrocities in Armenia, let us see what the ...
— Volume 1 of Brann The Iconoclast • William Cowper Brann



Words linked to "Despoliation" :   pillaging, pillage, despoil, plundering



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