| 单词 | reign of terror |
| 释义 | > as lemmasreign of terror reign of terror n. a period of remorseless repression or bloodshed during which the general community live in constant fear of death or violence; spec. (with capital initials) French History the period of the First Revolution from about March 1793 to July 1794; = sense 3a. [With the spec. use with reference to the French Revolution, compare French le règne de la terreur (1794 or earlier in this sense).] ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > oppression > [noun] > reign of terror reign of terror1784 terrorism1795 terror1798 White Terror1805 Red Terror1864 society > authority > rule or government > a or the system of government > specific regimes > [noun] > in France reign of terror1784 ancient regime1792 ancien régime1794 terrorism1795 First Republic1800 White Terror1805 restoration1815 consulate1845 Red Terror1864 commune1871 marshalate1874 the mind > emotion > fear > quality of inspiring fear > quality of terribleness > [noun] > one who or that which terrifies > terrorism > reign of terror reign of terror1784 terror1798 1784 J. Farell tr. F. d'Ivernois Hist. & Polit. View Constit. & Revol. Geneva iii. iv. 309 If the reign of terror can exist at all, will its existence be long? 1801 H. M. Williams Sketches Manners French Republic I. xviii. 231 This superb monument had suffered most from the reign of terror. 1848 ‘G. Eliot’ Let. 8 Mar. (1954) I. 255 The Glasgow riots are more serious, but one cannot believe in a Scotch Reign of Terror in these days. 1891 Ld. Rosebery Pitt xi. 186 On the one side there were murders, roastings, plunder of arms, and a reign of terror [in Ireland in 1797]. 1905 Baroness Orczy Scarlet Pimpernel xi. 109 The news of the awful September massacres, and of the Reign of Terror and Anarchy. 1965 Ebony Apr. 49/1 Civil and religious authorities initiated a reign of terror, martyring thousands. 1989 W. Taubman & J. Taubman Moscow Spring 18 Facts about Stalin's long reign of terror poured forth in the press—numbers of victims, details of their fates in NKVD torture chambers. 2005 T. Hall Salaam Brick Lane i. 9 It was allowed to grow unchecked into the slums so vilified during Jack the Ripper's reign of terror. < as lemmas |
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