crime against humanity
Noun
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Noun
crime against humanity
- (now, chiefly, legal) A very destructive and immoral act; later specifically, something causing widespread human misery or loss of life; an atrocity. [from 17th c.]
- 1629, Richard Baxter, Christian Directory, IV.25:
- Be faithful to your friend that doth entrust you; remembring that perfidiousness or falseness to a friend, is a crime against humanity, and all society.
- 2015, The Guardian, 27 October:
- A Spanish judge has charged five suspected former leaders of the armed Basque separatist movement ETA with crimes against humanity for attacks carried out by the group after 2004 which killed 12 people.
- 1629, Richard Baxter, Christian Directory, IV.25:
- French: crime contre l'humanité
- German: Verbrechen gegen die Menschlichkeit
- Italian: crimine contro l'umanità
- Portuguese: crime contra a humanidade
- Russian: преступле́ние про́тив челове́чества
- Spanish: delito de lesa humanidad, crimen de lesa humanidad
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