trucidation

English

Etymology

From Latin trucidatio

Noun

trucidation (countable and uncountable, plural trucidations)

  1. The act of killing; slaughter or massacre.

References

"Labour, which had started the disasters of Cyprus by denying it any decolonisation after 1945, had now completed them, abandoning it to trucidation." - Perry Anderson, The Divisions of Cyprus, London Review of Books, Vol. 30 No. 8, 2008.

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