Spoliation is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SPOLIATION in dictionary:

VERB:
• The act of plundering; robbery; deprivation; despoliation.
• Robbery or plunder in war; especially, the authorized act or practice of plundering neutrals at sea.
• The act of an incumbent in taking the fruits of his benefice without right, but under a pretended title.
• A process for possession of a church in a spiritual court.
• Injury done to a document.
NOUN:
• the act of pillaging and plundering
• the action of ruining or destroying something
• the action of taking goods or property from somewhere by violent means
• (law) the intentional destruction of a document or an alteration of it that destroys its value as evidence
• the act of stripping and taking by force
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• the act of plundering; the state of having been plundered especially in war

Words related to SPOLIATION

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Words that contain SPOLIATION

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How to use SPOLIATION in a sentence

• The spoliation was infinitely worse than the suppression of the monasteries by Henry VIII.
• The simple truth was that money at this juncture was a supreme necessity to the State, and this spoliation seemed the easiest way to meet the public wants.
• Conquest over the Oriental monarchies meant only spoliation.
• External spoliation immediately commenced, and internal disunion quickly followed.
• But while he despoiled the Saxon prelates, he would suffer no royal spoliation of the Norman bishops.
• This spoliation may have been a violation of the rights of property, but the monks had betrayed their trusts.
• Such a spoliation of the Church had not before taken place in any country of Europe.
• Cases of the deliberate invasion and spoliation of one country by another have been very rare in the history of the last three centuries.
• The princes soon became past masters in the art of spoliation.
• Croker was home ten days before he missed his leadership, and even then he was made aware of its spoliation only by beholding it in the hands of the cabal.
• That wound had been dealt while he was kneeling before the altar in the last church in Brittany which had escaped spoliation.
• Be that as it may, it was at this period that began the diplomatic spoliation of Europe, which was only stopped at its very extremities.
• The theory of Free Trade is only applicable to systems of exchange, not to systems of spoliation.
• We all know that in 1848, after our war of spoliation, we had to bolster up a semblance of a government for Mexico, with which to negotiate a treaty of peace.
• They thus anticipated all attempts at spoliation, and gave a proof of their readiness to submit to any suffering for the cause which they had espoused.
• The country bishops, as the weaker party, were first subjected to a process of spoliation.
• This spoliation, however, enraged the Genoese, who joined the league of Florence and Venice, deserting Milan.
• It is absurd to suppose that when the act of spoliation took place village Hampdens could spring up on every hill-side in Connemara.
• Nay, they even sanctioned future spoliation and wrong.
• Stanley, and vindicated the resolution from the charge of spoliation.
• A treaty of territorial spoliation imposed by force never has and never will bind a nation.
• Napoleon would even manage matters in such a way as to leave it to other hands to carry out this last spoliation.
• We are here neither as murderers, nor robbers, for plunder and spoliation.
• The principles urged, for instance, by these two in justification of this spoliation could be applied equally well to the estates of laymen.
• Yet after all is said, we can hardly fail to see that out of the spoliation and scattering of the religious orders much good came.
• Not a word of rebuke had passed his lips as to the infamous attempt at spoliation which had been made.
• From what his friends call the conversion, and his enemies the spoliation, of Church property in England he obtained many millions more.
• The Government, however, has taken steps to protect the remaining forests from further spoliation.
• Wanton destruction and not spoliation, common in war tactics, was their watchword.
• Every successive act of spoliation drove Catholic Irishmen across the Atlantic as well as into Europe, and gave every Colony an infusion of Irish blood.
• The Hollanders carried this spoliation to such an extent that they took their very clothes from their bodies.
• It goes without saying that half the property of the country will not submit to spoliation without a struggle.
• The word spoliation does yeoman service in covering with one broad blanket of prejudice the most diverse cases of wealth.
• The spoliation of the civil rights of the Negro is one of the most menacing features in our politics.

Similar words containing SPOLIA without suffix tion

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