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Webster 1913 Edition


Trucidation

Truˊci-da′tion

,
Noun.
[L.
trucidatio
, fr.
trucidare
to slaughter.]
The act of killing.
[Obs.]

Webster 1828 Edition


Trucidation

TRUCIDA'TION

,
Noun.
[L. trucido, to kill.] The act of killing.

Definition 2024


trucidation

trucidation

English

Noun

trucidation (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.