populicide means the deliberate slaughter of a people or a nation. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.
populicide is pronounced /ˈpɒpjʊlɪsaɪd/.
Why “populicide” is a great word
POPULICIDE — [Noun] The deliberate slaughter of a people or a nation. From the Latin populus ("people, nation") and the French suffix -cide ("killing"), via French populicide; coined in 1795 by French revolutionary François-Noël Babeuf to describe the massacre in the Vendée. Unlike "genocide," which targets a group defined by identity, or "democide," a modern term for state killing of the unarmed, populicide carries the cold, historical weight of a political body turning upon its own constituent flesh. It is the guillotine’s mechanical appetite multiplied across a province, the bureaucratic ledger that tallies a populace as a problem, and the precise moment a collective noun becomes a body count—a word that measures atrocity by the sheer, empty space left behind.
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- The deliberate slaughter of a people or a nation.“In 1793, the capital vvas menaced vvith the dreadful ſcourge of famine, and if vve are to believe ſome ſpeculative men, this originated in a populicide conſpiracy, on the part of the then exiſting government.”