different between depredation vs despoilment

English

From Middle French déprédation, from Latin depraedatio.

depredation (countable and uncountable, plural depredations)

An act of consuming agricultural resources (crops, livestock), especially as plunder.
- 2003, The Living Elephants: Evolutionary Ecology, Behavior, and Conservation, by R. Sukumar, page 299:
  Depredation of cultivated crops by elephants is widespread in both Africa and Asia.
A raid or predatory attack.
Union Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman had long known that his fragile supply and communication lines through Tennessee were in serious jeopardy because of depredations by Forrest's cavalry raids. (Battle of Brice's Crossroads)

despoil +? -ment

despoilment (countable and uncountable, plural despoilments)

The act of despoiling; a plundering; despoliation.
- 1994: Noah M. Lemos, Intrinsic Value
  On such a view, the despoilment of pristine wilderness is the loss of something intrinsically good.

despoilment in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
despoilment in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

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