Meaning of classicide | Babel Free

Definitions

The deliberate and systematic destruction of a social class.

countable, uncountable

Examples

“Any study of nationalism must also take into account relationships between other ideologies and forms of genocide, whether we examine the politicides and classicides of Stalin, Mao, or Pol Pot, the mass killing of native peoples by colonists in the Americas before the age of modern nationalism, or indeed the massacres of seventeenth-century religious wars.”

CEFR level