Populicide

Quick meaning: Populicide is a noun meaning (archaic) The deliberate slaughter of a people or a nation.

Meaning

(archaic) The deliberate slaughter of a people or a nation.

Example Sentences

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."

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.

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.

Word Forms

• populicides

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include slaughter, humanicide, policide, democide, massacre, decimation.

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