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spoliation
spoliation:
see
spoil
spoliation (n.)
"robbery, plunder," c. 1400, from Latin
spoliationem
(nominative
spoliatio
) "a robbing, plundering, pillaging," noun of action from past participle stem of
spoliare
"to plunder, rob" (see
spoil
(v.)).