单词 | thought criminal |
释义 | > as lemmasthought criminal thought criminal n. a person who commits (a) thought crime. [Originally after Japanese shisō-hannin (1933 or earlier; < shisō thought (see thought crime n.) + hannin criminal < Middle Chinese) and its abbreviated form shisō-han (see thought crime n.). Compare slightly earlier thought crime n., thought police n.] ΚΠ 1935 H. Topping tr. T. Kagawa Medit. on Cross i. 15 This Jew [sc. Jesus] is a thought-criminal, but there is nothing to touch his thought-crime in Roman law. 1949 ‘G. Orwell’ Nineteen Eighty-four i. 57 Syme..was fully capable of denouncing him as a thought-criminal. 1991 J. Chang Wild Swans (1993) iii. 88 Word was out that he had been branded a ‘thought criminal’ [by the occupying Japanese]—an offense which was punishable by imprisonment, and possibly death. < as lemmas |
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