Usage examples (31)

• Convenience, depredation, the compassing of by-ends, rather than any loving communion, is too often its intent.
• If a depredation was committed in the night, the dawn of morning found the sufferer on the trail of the marauder.
• The archbishop went on to envisage new regulatory frameworks to protect the environment from economic depredation.
• Rulers superseded rulers in Mexico in rapid succession, but still there was no change in this system of depredation.