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Spoliation vs Freebooting - What's the difference?

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Spoliation is a related term of freebooting.


As nouns the difference between spoliation and freebooting

is that spoliation is the act of plundering or spoiling; robbery; deprivation; despoliation while freebooting is piracy or plundering.

As an adjective freebooting is

engaged in piracy or plunder.

As a verb freebooting is

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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

    References

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    Anagrams

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    freebooting

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • Piracy or plundering
  • * {{quote-book, year=1853, author=James Richardson, title=Narrative of a Mission to Central Africa Performed in the Years 1850-51, Volume 2, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=The Haghar are well known, even in Europe, for their freebooting propensities. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1900, author=Josephine Elizabeth Butler, title=Native Races and the War, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Why do you now refuse to protect your own highway into the Interior,
  • * {{quote-book, year=1921, author=Howard Pyle, title=Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=In a short time freebooting assumed all of the routine of a regular business. }}
  • The unauthorized rehosting of online media

    • Adjective

    (-)
  • Engaged in piracy or plunder
  • * {{quote-book, year=1843, author=Ralph Waldo Emerson, title=The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol II., chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=In one respect, as I hinted above, it is only too good, so sure of success, I mean, that you are no longer secure of any respect to your property in our freebooting America. }}

    Verb

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