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单词 death-warrant
释义 ˈdeath-ˌwarrant
Also 7–8 dead-.
A warrant for the execution of the sentence of death.
1692Luttrell Brief Rel. (1857) II. 644 The dead warrant is come to the sheriffe of London for the execution of 13 of the late condemned criminally.1757Symmer in Ellis Orig. Lett. ii. IV. 398 The Lords of the Admiralty..signed the Dead Warrant appointing him to be shot.1886C. Bullock Queen's Resolve 51/1 Before Parliament relieved her of the necessity, she [Queen Victoria] had to sign the death-warrant of all prisoners sentenced to suffer capital punishment.
fig.1814Scott Life of Swift Swift's Wks. (1824) I. 250 It was her death-warrant. She sunk at once under the disappointment.1874Morley Compromise (1886) 232 An institution whose death-warrant you pretend to be signing.
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