Definition of Despoilments

1. Noun. (plural of despoilment) ¹

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Definition of Despoilments

1. despoilment [n] - See also: despoilment

Lexicographical Neighbors of Despoilments

despiteful
despitefully
despitefulness
despiteous
despiteously
despites
despiting
despitous
despoil
despoilation
despoiled
despoiler
despoilers
despoiling
despoilment
despoilments (current term)
despoils
despoliation
despoliations
despond
desponded
despondence
despondences
despondencies
despondency
despondent
despondently
desponder
desponders
desponding

Literary usage of Despoilments

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Christian Examiner (1854)
"Age comes in here also, and makes its despoilments, and leaves some things worse than they were before. In saying this, we are not thinking chiefly of the ..."

2. Primitive Civilizations: Or, Outlines of the History of Ownership in Archaic by Edith Jemima Simcox (1894)
"The kingdoms of Syria and the Hittites must have suffered serious defeats and despoilments, but it maybe doubted whether even Thothmes III. attempted much ..."

3. The Empresses of Rome by Joseph McCabe (1911)
"By fines, taxes, despoilments, and the unscrupulous ruin of his opponents, the hated Gaul amassed wealth and power, and ruled like an autocrat. ..."

4. The Gospel in All Lands by Missionary Society, Methodist Episcopal Church (1900)
""Third, the fear of foreign despoilment of their country. Not so much such despoilments as those at Formosa and ..."

5. New Essays Concerning Human Understanding by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Carl Immanuel Gerhardt (1916)
"They would be content to see them deprived of it, without thinking of profiting from their despoilments, and indeed without being able to hope for it. ..."

6. Heredity and Morals as Affected by the Use and Abuse of the Sexual Instinct by James Foster Scott (1900)
"... and that its despoilments and ravages within her internal sexual organs and peritoneal cavity were far more severe and fatal than those of syphilis. ..."

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