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classicide en · NOUN

Etymology

From class + -icide.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) The deliberate and systematic destruction of a social class.
   • 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. 2017, John Hutchinson, Nationalism and War:

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