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Definition of Despoilment

Despoilment
Despoilment De*spoil"ment, n. Despoliation. [R.]

Meaning of Despoilment from wikipedia

- Looting is the act of stealing, or the taking of goods by force, typically in the midst of a military, political, or other social crisis, such as war,...
- parodies, by Randall Garrett. The collection includes Garret's novellete Despoilers of the Golden Empire, a pulp magazine yarn mixing space travel and classic...
- architect, Bernard Judge, to build his home and natural village there without despoiling the environment. An environmental laboratory protecting sea birds and...
- destro****. The idea that mankind was endangering nature by recklessly despoiling and plundering its riches was unheard of at the time, but it is one that...
- Warhammer 40,000 (sometimes colloquially shortened as Warhammer 40K, WH40K or simply 40k) is a miniature wargame produced by Games Workshop. It is the...
- Rome, whereas the Tiber has remained in the Louvre to this day.) The despoilment of Italian churches and palaces outraged the Italians and their artistic...
- a cavalry force, thus the need to maintain his followers through the despoiling of church lands. Responding to Brunner's thesis, Paul Fouracre theorizes...
- synagogues of Kraków were ruined during World War II by the ****s who despoiled them of all ceremonial objects, and used them as storehouses for ammunition...
- unprovable charge. Conditions in Normandy were unsettled, as noble families despoiled the Church and Alan III of Brittany waged war against the duchy, possibly...
- of Este, and nephew of the other Ippolito d'Este, also a cardinal. He despoiled the then 1,400-year-old Hadrian's Villa, built by the Roman emperor Hadrian...