spoliation

From Latin spoliatio.

spoliation (countable and uncountable, plural spoliations)

1. (archaic) The act of plundering or spoiling; robbery

   Synonyms: deprivation, despoliation

   • 1852, Charles Dickens, 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.

2. Robbery or plunder in times of war; especially, the authorized act or practice of plundering neutrals at sea.
3. (law) The intentional destruction of or tampering with (a document) in such way as to impair evidentiary effect.

• writ of spoliation

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

• spoliation in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• spoliation in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

• isopointal, positional

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spoliation f (plural spoliations)

1. spoliation