despoilment
(dɪˈspɔɪlmənt)
[f. despoil v. + -ment. Cf. OF. despoillement, mod.F. dépouillement.]
The action of despoiling or fact of being despoiled; spoliation.
| 1822 Moir Stanzas on Infant i, As yet by Earth's despoilment undefaced. 1859 Ld. Broughton Italy II. xii. 4 The first despoilment is..to be attributed to the piety or rapacity of Stilicho. 1873 L. Wallace Fair God vii. xiv. 541 The city, beautiful in its despoilment. |