victimizationn.
/ˌvɪktᵻmʌɪˈzeɪʃn/, U.S. /ˌvɪktəməˈzeɪʃən/, /ˌvɪktəˌmaɪˈzeɪʃən/ a. The action of victimizing, or fact of being victimized, in various senses.
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the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > hostile action or attack > [noun] > victimization
victimizing1834
victimization1840
pig-sticking1948
1840 New Monthly Mag. 59 397 The man who does not grow savage at victimization is an inert, unsentient booby.
1860 A. L. Windsor Ethica v. 278 On Pope's complete victimization, perhaps, less stress is to be laid.
1885 L. Oliphant Sympneumata 57 But the victimisation of the infant terrestrial man was not to be so fully consummated.
1900 Pilot 30 June 544/1 The Companies Bill and the Money-Lending Bill..had the common object of putting down fraud and victimisation.
b. spec. in Theology. (See quot. 1893.)
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society > faith > worship > sacrament > communion > eucharistic doctrines > presence of Christ in communion > [noun] > actual > body > Eucharistic state of
victimization1893
1893 Month Apr. 485 Christ's Body in its Eucharistic state, which Theologians, when they explain the sacrificial character of the Mass, call a state of victimization.
c. spec. With reference to the imposition of penalties on trade union members who go on strike.
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society > occupation and work > working > labour relations > [noun] > strike > imposition of penalties
victimization1923
1923 Westm. Gaz. 23 Apr. The expression ‘no victimisation’ implied that a striker's place was not to be filled by an outsider.
1925 S. O'Casey Juno & Paycock i, in Two Plays 8 Why did they sack her? It was a clear case of victimization.
1957 Listener 26 Dec. 1057/1 Victimisation, that ‘doubletalk’ word of today, was then a vivid and frequent reality.
1961 Daily Tel. 16 Dec. 7/1 They will receive severance pay from the company and a share of a ‘victimisation fund’ to tide them over until they find other jobs.
1966 Punch 27 July 140/1 Accusing the Prime Minister of ‘the same old excuses’, it [sc. the Daily Telegraph] labelled ‘redeployment’ as ‘new-speak’, which would be ‘victimisation of the workers’ in any but a Labour Government.
1974 Socialist Worker 23 Nov. 1/3 From the miners' ballot to the strikes of bakers and journalists, to the victimisation strike at Intex in Manchester, the will to fight is there.
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