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Holocaust   /hˈɑləkˌɔst/   Listen
Holocaust

noun
1.
An act of mass destruction and loss of life (especially in war or by fire).
2.
The mass murder of Jews under the German Nazi regime from 1941 until 1945.  Synonym: final solution.





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... the sacrifice; in which, when discovered, the fire was not found, but thick water; the which Nehemias commanded to be brought, and the sacrifice to be sprinkled therewith; and immediately a great fire was kindled, and it consumed the holocaust and burned the hard stones. So was the congealed water burned up by the power of the same fire which, proceeding from water, did burn to ashes the sacrifice and the stones of the altar. Therefore is the strangeness of this miracle to be admired, the holiness of Patrick ...
— The Most Ancient Lives of Saint Patrick - Including the Life by Jocelin, Hitherto Unpublished in America, and His Extant Writings • Various
... Europe and America may well have stronger sympathy and respect for their fellow-Christians in China who have suffered so much for conscience' sake. Purified and chastened by the fearful holocaust through which they have passed, they are stronger spiritually than ever before. Like the apostles after Pentecost, they are giving "with great power their witness of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus.'' "The Chinese Church is not yet strong ...
— An Inevitable Awakening • ARTHUR JUDSON BROWN
... marched into the town, and what followed may be conceived. It was a holocaust of lust, of passion, and of blood such as even the Spanish West Indies had never seen before. Houses and churches were sacked until nothing was left but the bare walls; men and women were tortured to compel them to disclose where more treasure ...
— Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates • Howard I. Pyle


Words linked to "Holocaust" :   race murder, racial extermination, destruction, devastation, genocide


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