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spoliation

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10 lettersPronunciation /spəʊliˈeɪʃn̩/Part of speech nounSorted aiilnoopstStarts with SEnds with N0 clues
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Definitions

  1. the act of stripping and taking by force

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  • There is much sad evidence, too, of the spoliation and dereliction of vanished industry: tips, slag-heaps and derelict colliery-screens among which the ubiquitous, nomad mountain sheep graze unconcernedly.
  • A Benefice is ſaid to be vacant de Facto, and not de Jure, vvhen the Poſſeſſion thereof is loſt by Spoliation or Intruſion, and the like: […]
  • [W]here one ſaith to the Patron, that his Clerk is dead, whereupon he preſents another: there the firſt Incumbent, who was ſuppoſed to be dead, may have a Spoliation againſt the other.

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