Confiscation is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for CONFISCATION in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the act of confiscating
• The act or process of taking property or condemning it to be taken, as forfeited to the public use.
• seizure by the government
• the action of taking or seizing someone's property with authority; seizure
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• appropriated by the government; forfeited

Words related to CONFISCATION

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How to use CONFISCATION in a sentence

• Its victory in North Germany was due to the secular interest of the princes, who profited by the confiscation of Church lands.
• Capital punishment has been abolished in some countries, likewise torture, confiscation, corporal punishment.
• His object is to pass his goods through the custom-house at the very lowest valuation necessary to save them from confiscation.
• All the English, and other foreigners placed under similar circumstances, are now, without exception, arrested, and the confiscation of their property is decreed.
• Confiscation of the capital of the monasteries 8 First successful peasant revolt.
• The venerable gentleman, who wears gold spectacles and reads a conservative daily, prefers confiscation to emancipation.
• Free their negroes by an act of Emancipation, or Confiscation, and the rebellion will crumble to pieces in a day.
• The almsboxes shared the general confiscation, and doubtless not only the services of the church, but the poor who came for food, suffered thereby.
• To be taken in the act meant fines, imprisonment, confiscation of boat and gear.
• It had withered in popular elections, been paralyzed by confiscation laws, crushed by executive decrees, trampled upon by marching Union armies.
• Monuments, station, and confiscation have vanished before the scrutiny of the Rev.
• The pecuniary advantages of confiscation, in this instance, cannot compensate its ill effects.
• It was added that the question of confiscation of their property would be one for the Executive to deal with.
• This agitation was the one known as the work of the Phoenix Society, and the object was the separation of Ireland from England and the confiscation of Irish property.
• His advent into Yucatan from the lawless northern part of Mexico was marked by wholesale confiscation of property, by robbery and outrage.
• Having tasted once the food of confiscation, the favorites became fierce and ravenous.
• I gave you all, and you have rewarded me with confiscation, disgrace, and a life of impeachment.
• Her property escaped confiscation by reason of the deaths of her father and brother.
• All these lands were obtained by the confiscation of the estates of the rebellious chieftains.
• First, periodical raids upon the suspected, accompanied by confiscation and search of all papers found.
• With regard to the question of condemning the ship the Chief Justice held that there was not sufficient evidence to warrant confiscation.
• The Orange flag is the symbol of conquest, confiscation, racial and religious ascendancy.
• Amidst assassination, massacre, and confiscation, perpetrated or meditated, they are forming plans for the good order of future society.
• That objection, you will say, cannot hold as to the confiscation of the goods of monks and nuns, and the abolition of their order.
• But they had newly possessed themselves of a great body of landed property by confiscation.
• You may by free coinage, by a species of confiscation, reduce the burden of a debt, but you cannot change the relative value of gold or silver, or any object of human desire.

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