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populicides

populicides is the plural of populicide.

Meaning of populicide

Noun

populicide (countable and uncountable, plural populicides)

  1. (archaic) The deliberate slaughter of a people or a nation.
    • 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.[1798, [John Adolphus], “Garin”, in Biographical Anecdotes of the Founders of the French Republic, and of Other Eminent Characters, who have Distinguished Themselves in the Progress of the...

Questions about populicides

What is populicides the plural of?
Populicides is the plural of populicide.

Words near populicides in the dictionary

  1. populator
  2. populators
  3. populetum
  4. populicidal
  5. populicide
  6. populicides
  7. populin
  8. populiser
  9. populisers
  10. populism
  11. populisms

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