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expoliation

expoliation is the obsolete form of exspoliation.

Meaning of exspoliation

Noun

exspoliation (usually uncountable, plural exspoliations)

  1. (obsolete, usually) Spoliation.
    • If thou aspire to attain to the perfect knitting and union with God , know that it requireth a perfect exspoliation, and denudation, or bare nakedness, and utter forsaking of all sin, yea, of all creatures, and of thyself particularly: even that thy mind and understanding, thy affections and...1825, Robert Leighton (abp. of Glasgow), John Norman Pearson, The Whole Works of the Most Reverend Father in God, Robert Leighton, page 430

Forms of expoliation

pluralexpoliations

Questions about expoliation

What is expoliation the obsolete form of?
Expoliation is the obsolete form of exspoliation.

Words near expoliation in the dictionary

  1. explosivity
  2. explosophore
  3. explosophores
  4. exply
  5. expo
  6. expoliation
  7. expoliations
  8. expolish
  9. expolished
  10. expolishes
  11. expolishing

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