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despoilment

despoilment \de*spoil"ment\, n. Despoliation. [R.]

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despoilment

n. The act of despoiling; a plundering; despoliation.

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despoilment

n. the act of stripping and taking by force [syn: spoil, spoliation, spoilation, despoilation, despoliation]

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For all the despoilments visited upon the place for good or ill, nothing could change the basic forces that lived here unseen and unmarked by any but the most attuned.