genociden.
/ˈdʒɛnəsʌɪd/, U.S. /ˈdʒɛnəˌsaɪd/ The deliberate and systematic extermination of an ethnic or national group.
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sleightc893
wal-slaught?a900
qualeeOE
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swordc1000
morthOE
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mortc1330
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iron and firea1387
murraina1387
manslaughtera1400
martyre?a1400
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butchery?1536
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slaughterdom1592
slaughtering1597
carnage1600
massacring1600
slaughtery1604
internecion1610
decimationa1613
destroy1616
trucidation1623
stragea1632
sword-wrack1646
interemption1656
carnifice1657
panolethry1668
butcher work1808
bloodbath1814
populicide1824
man-slaughtering1851
battue1864
mass murder1917
genocide1944
overkill1957
1944 R. Lemkin Axis Rule in Occupied Europe ix. 79 By ‘genocide’ we mean the destruction of a nation or of an ethnic group.
1945 Sunday Times 21 Oct. 7 The United Nations' indictment of the 24 Nazi leaders has brought a new word into the language—genocide. It occurs in Count 3, where it is stated that all the defendants ‘conducted deliberate and systematic genocide—namely, the extermination of racial and national groups...’
1951 Amer. Jrnl. Psychiatry Feb. 595/1 Genocide as defined by the United Nations is the direct physical destruction of another racial or national group.
1962 Listener 20 Sept. 452/2 One of the things the seventeenth century never achieved was genocide.
1969 Peace News 13 June 4/1 The government are..conducting cultural genocide by destroying this Scottish (Gaidhlig) community.
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