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Spoliation vs Despoilment - What's the difference?

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Spoliation is a related term of despoilment.


As nouns the difference between spoliation and despoilment

is that spoliation is the act of plundering or spoiling; robbery; deprivation; despoliation while despoilment is the act of despoiling; a plundering; despoliation.

spoliation

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The act of plundering or spoiling; robbery; deprivation; despoliation.
  • * 1852 , , Bleak House , ch. 1:
    • In trickery, evasion, procrastination, spoliation , botheration, under false pretences of all sorts, there are influences that can never come to good.
  • Robbery or plunder in times of war; especially, the authorized act or practice of plundering neutrals at sea.
  • (legal) The intentional destruction of or tampering with (a document) in such way as to impair evidentiary effect.

    • Derived terms

    * writ of spoliation

    Related terms

    * despoil * despolation * spoil * spoliate * spoliative * spoliator * spoliatory * spolium

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    despoilment

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of despoiling; a plundering; despoliation.
  • * 1994 : Noah M. Lemos, Intrinsic Value
    • On such a view, the despoilment of pristine wilderness is the loss of something intrinsically good.

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