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Pyrrhic, a.3|ˈpɪrɪk|
[ad. Gr. πυρρικός, f. Πυρρός, L. Pyrrhus, name of a king of Epirus.]
Of, pertaining to, or like that of Pyrrhus.
Pyrrhic victory, a victory gained at too great a cost; in allusion to the exclamation attributed to Pyrrhus after the battle of Asculum in Apulia (in which he routed the Romans, but with the loss of the flower of his army), ‘One more such victory and we are lost’.
1885Daily Tel. 17 Dec., Although its acceptance might secure for the moment the triumph of a party division, it would be indeed a Pyrrhic victory. |