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1610 G. Carleton Iurisdict. 240 Hauing had their whole army brought vnto Internecion at Abdua.

a1676 M. Hale Primitive Originat. Mankind (1677) ii. ix. 215 By the Spaniards in the West Indies, the numbers of Internecions and Slaughters would exceed all Arithmetical Calculation.

1781 S. Ancell Let. 3 Apr. in Jrnl. Blockade & Siege Gibraltar (1793) 94 The firing from the garrison is masterly.., carrying into the enemy's lines and works the sad effects of internecion.

a1794 C. Pigott Polit. Dict. (1795) 165 Or, is it that these men are sectarists..; that love war, bloodshed and rapine, and internecion in the abstract?

1822 Gentleman's Mag. July 22 In the combats of barbarians whole nations act in mass against each other, and the contest may terminate in the utter internecion of one of the parties.

1844 S. K. Hoshour Lett. to Esq. Pedant ii. 44 I also onerated with an instrument consisting of a ligneous stock and ferreous tube for the internecion of aligerous and volant bipeds.

1848 J. Boag Pop. Eng. Dict. I. 732/1 Internecion, mutual slaughter or destruction.

1893 Westm. Gaz. 19 June 2/1 Unless biassed by such paltry prejudice as that of religious or racial internecion.

1910 I. Zangwill Ital. Fantasies 369 Least irrational of all internecion were the fratricide of twins. Save the war of self-defence, civil war is the only legitimate form of war.

1916 H. C. Stuart Prophet in His Own Country xxiii. 109 The internecine sores now festering everywhere in this fair land, will break into general internecion.

1994 K. Shands Repair of World ii. 41 After all the preceding internecion, there is thus a somewhat hopeful note—a vision of connection, empathy and cooperation replacing earlier distrust and discord.