spoliation
noun
the act or an instance of plundering or despoiling.
spoliatory
-
a word derived from
spoliation.
Example Sentences
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Ulster, however, was still unreduced, and while that was so, denunciatory and spoliatory decrees might well turn out to be mere waste paper.
From William the Third by H. D. (Henry Duff) Traill
