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nounmalicide (countable and uncountable, plural malicides)
plural malicides
- countablehistoricaluncountableThe killing of a heretic, especially in reference to Christianity's dogmatic witch-hunts.
In fact, by the eleventh century, a term was invented for killing non-Christians, since this was not to be considered homicide. It was malicide, Latin for the killing of a bad person.
2008, Mark Kurlansky, Nonviolence. The History of a Dangerous Idea. Foreword by His Holiness the Dalai Lama, page 33
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