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English
Etymology
From Latin trucidatio.
Noun
trucidation (countable and uncountable, plural trucidations)
- (rare) The act of killing; slaughter or massacre.
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:I loathe the snails, but from loathing to actual butchery, trucidation of multitudes, there is still a step that I hesitate to take.
1938, James Bridie, Babes in the Woods:ɢɪʟʟᴇᴛ: 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!
2008, Perry Anderson, “The Divisions of Cyprus”, in London Review of Books, volume 30, number 8:Labour, which had started the disasters of Cyprus by denying it any decolonisation after 1945, had now completed them, abandoning it to trucidation.