| 单词 | prisoner of conscience |
| 释义 | > as lemmasprisoner of (also †for) conscience prisoner of (also †for) conscience n. a person detained or imprisoned for his or her political or religious views. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > imprisonment > prisoner > [noun] > political or prisoner of conscience state prisoner1677 prisoner of conscience1738 political prisoner1828 political1884 1738 J. Besse Abstr. Sufferings Quakers II. iii. 147 We shall close our Account of this County, with representing to the reader the Usage of the Prisoners for Conscience in Durham-Goal. 1897 A. E. Barr (title) Prisoners of Conscience. 1961 Amnesty 11 July 2/1 There are thousands of them and each one is a human being, a prisoner of conscience behind bars because of his political views or religious beliefs. 1970 Times 20 Apr. 6/5 A great many prisoners of conscience, it claims, are sent with or without trial ‘to the so-called special psychiatric hospitals’. 2000 P. Prentice Pinter Ethic 273 Pinter found himself increasingly engaged—joining CND, the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, and crusading on behalf of prisoners of conscience. < as lemmas |
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