despoliation
(dɪˌspəʊlɪˈeɪʃən)
[ad. L. dēspoliātiōn-em, n. of action from dēspoliāre to despoil.]
The action of despoiling; despoilment.
| 1657 Phillips, Despoliation, a robbing or spoiling. 1658 Ibid., Dispoliation. 1830 J. G. Strutt Sylva Brit. 136 The Wallace Oak seems destined..to share their fate of despoliation. 1894 J. Batten Hist. Coll. S. Somerset 110 The despoliation of alien priories in the time of Henry V. |