Crossword clues for despoliation
despoliation
The Collaborative International Dictionary
despoliation \de*spo`li*a"tion\, n. [L. despoliatio. See
Despoil.]
A stripping or plundering; spoliation.
--Bailey.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1650s, from Late Latin despoliationem (nominative despoliatio), noun of action from Latin despoliatus, past participle of despoliare (see despoil).
Wiktionary
n. A stripping or plundering; spoliation.
WordNet
n. the act of stripping and taking by force [syn: spoil, spoliation, spoilation, despoilation, despoilment]
Usage examples of "despoliation".
Their existence as a movement depends upon industrialization, the same industrialization that they must aggressively condemn as leading to the despoliation of Gaia.
Kosmos, the collapse of the Kosmos, and the consequent despoliation of Gaia precisely in the incapacity to engage the interior processes of transformation upon which reflection itself depends in the first place, and upon which mutual agreement and mutual accord, which alone will save Gaia, must proceed.
Now I find that it is in the process of despoliation by these same Howling Bounders.