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Decimation   /dˈɛsəmˌeɪʃən/   Listen
Decimation

noun
1.
Destroying or killing a large part of the population (literally every tenth person as chosen by lot).





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"Decimation" Quotes from Famous Books



... to ascend to Heaven and testify against you? How will you carry the Bill into effect? Can you commit a whole county to their own prisons? Will you erect a gibbet in every field, and hang up men like scarecrows? or will you proceed (as you must to bring this measure into effect) by decimation? place the county under martial law? depopulate and lay waste all around you? and restore Sherwood Forest as an acceptable gift to the crown, in its former condition of a royal chase and an asylum for outlaws? Are these the remedies for a starving ...
— The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals, Volume 2. • Lord Byron


Words linked to "Decimation" :   decimate, destruction, devastation


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