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spoilful

adj

Etymology

From spoil + -ful.

  1. derived from spoliō — “pillage, ruin, spoil”
  2. derived from espoillier
  3. inherited from spoilen
  4. suffixed as spoilful — “spoil + ful”

Definitions

  1. Destructive, pillaging.

    • […] hauing oft in battell vanquished / Those spoilefull Picts, and swarming Easterlings, / Long time in peace his Realme established […]

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