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despoilment

noun

Etymology

From despoil + -ment.

  1. derived from dēspoliō
  2. derived from despoillier
  3. inherited from despoylen,dispoylen
  4. suffixed as despoilment — “despoil + ment”

Definitions

  1. The act of despoiling

    The act of despoiling; a plundering; despoliation.

    • On such a view, the despoilment of pristine wilderness is the loss of something intrinsically good.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for despoilment. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA