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Spoliative vs Spoliation - What's the difference?

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Spoliative is a related term of spoliation.


As an adjective spoliative

is serving to take away, diminish, or rob.

As a noun spoliation is

the act of plundering or spoiling; robbery; deprivation; despoliation.

spoliative

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Serving to take away, diminish, or rob.
  • # (medicine, dated) Serving to diminish the amount of blood in the body.
  • spoliative bloodletting
    • (Webster 1913)

    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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