trucidation

plural trucidations

1. countablerareuncountableThe act of killing; slaughter or massacre.

   I loathe the snails, but from loathing to actual butchery, trucidation of multitudes, there is still a step that I hesitate to take.

   1883 May 8, Robert Louis Stevenson, letter to Mrs. Thomas Stevenson, quoted in, “Letters Vol. II”, in The Biographical Edition of the Works of Robert Louis Stevenson

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   Gillet: They hate me as much as I hate them. And that's saying a good deal. Girdlestone may deal with Walker's … trucidations of a dead and revered language. I shall begin to live!

   1938, James Bridie, Babes in the Woods

   Labour, which had started the disasters of Cyprus by denying it any decolonisation after 1945, had now completed them, abandoning it to trucidation.

   2008, Perry Anderson, “The Divisions of Cyprus”, in London Review of Books, volume 30, number 8