superweapon

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Etymology

From super- +‎ weapon.

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Noun

superweapon (plural superweapons)

  1. An extremely powerful weapon.
    • 1873, United States Congress, Congressional Record‎, The Congress, page 761:
      We must be very careful how we pin our faith on this thing, assuming that It is successfully developed; we must be wary of the idea that a superweapon can give us a superpower in the world or relieve us of the hard obligations of intelligent policy and diplomacy, of consistency, integrity, and foresight on the basic plane of human relationships.
    • 1918, Muriel Hine, The Best in Life‎, John Lane Company, page 216:
      And this was what Prussianism aimed at with her supermen and superweapons: to place the whole world in fetters and enforce the doctrine that “ might is right.”
    • 1969 February 3, The Nation‎, J.H. Richards, page 150:
      It was after the publication of 1984 that Orwell became, as Isaac Deutscher put it, an ideological "superweapon of the cold war."

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