Meaning of populicide | Babel Free

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The deliberate slaughter of a people or a nation.

archaic, countable, uncountable

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“In 1793, the capital vvas menaced vvith the dreadful ſcourge of famine, and if vve are to believe ſome ſpeculative men, this originated in a populicide conſpiracy, on the part of the then exiſting government.”

“Less extensively mischievous, tyrannicide would be less flagitious than populicide; murder of one, though he were a Secretary of State; or—but imagination must stop here—than murder of a promiscuous multitude of unarmed men, women, and children.”

“[S]ome of them, the worst of all, take their stand in the highest ranks of society, rave in the senate, bluster in the council of the nation, shine at courts, and everywhere proclaim falsehood to be truth, vice to be virtue, apostacy^([sic – meaning apostasy]) to be consistency, populicide to be patriotism; and while devoting the whole of their energies to blind, corrupt, and enslave mankind, they pretend to be the instructors, the monitors, the benefactors of the human race!”

“I mourn for Mr. [Abraham] Lincoln, as man should mourn the fate of man, when it is sudden and supreme. I hate regicide as I do populicide—deeply, if phrenzied; more deeply, if deliberate.”

“M. [Joseph] Salvador's reprinted treatise […] is a curious but not very enlivening book, in which […] arguments to prove that the Crucifixion was, in the first place, an act of deicide, then of populicide, then of legicide, and many other strange things are gathered together with a kind of serious simplicity which, at any rate for a time, supplies the want of practical force, method, and style.”

“Chancellor [Georg] von Hertling's speech in the Reichstag this week was the most cynical utterance yet made by the German populicides. Under the thin coating of phrases regarding universal peace principles appears the ravenous and murderous policy that is working its will in Russia.”

“Finally, Philippe de Villiers announced that a group of lawyers would work out a petition asking the United Nations to recognize the "Vendéen populicide as a crime against humanity."”

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