Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of extirpating or rooting out; eradication; excision; total destruction: as, the extirpation of weeds from land; the extirpation of a diseased gland; the extirpation of evil principles from the heart; the extirpation of heresy.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of extirpating or rooting out, or the state of being extirpated; eradication; excision; total destruction.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The act of
extirpating or uprooting.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the act of pulling up or out; uprooting; cutting off from existence
- noun surgical removal of a body part or tissue
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Examples
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Could definitely get by without them ... but their extirpation is not likely to happen.
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Could definitely get by without them ... but their extirpation is not likely to happen.
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Ideology tends to reject all of these, and ideology that has turned into Identity must go beyond rejection and necessarily engage in extirpation.
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Code, on these terms, seems not only like a politicized attempt to reverse the ideologies and political organizations of the present, but also like a fundamental misunderstanding of the logic of secularization itself, which (as Fish says) demands acts of "extirpation" in order to avoid ideological
Romantic Fear 2008
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It belonged to the Royalists equally with the Parliamentarians; the only difference being that the objects for "extirpation" in _their_ policy were and had been the Calvinisms and Presbyterianisms that were now exulting in the power of counter-extirpation.
The Life of John Milton Volume 3 1643-1649 David Masson 1864
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For "extirpation" means, according to Webster, to "destroy, to pull up by the roots;" which is all we mean by abolition.
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Mein Kampf (My Struggle), Hitler blamed the plight of Germany at the end of World War I on an international Jewish conspiracy and used terms such as "extirpation" and
American Thinker 2010
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I discovered that extirpation has the following meanings
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My inspiration was a 1934 article by Viktor Hamburger reporting on the effects of limb extirpation in chick embryos.
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Yet the overarching goal announced in strategic initiation and six-year follow-through was twofold: The "transformation of the Middle East" into democratic polities according to US standards, and the extirpation of terrorism and its source, "violent extremism."
Michael Vlahos: Did We Lose the War? Michael Vlahos 2011
hernesheir commented on the word extirpation
(n): (biol.) regional or localized extinction of species or populations.
January 1, 2009
RevBrently commented on the word extirpation
From p. 68 of Patrick Leigh Fermor's "A Time to Keep Silence":
It seems tragic that a lifetime of ascesis effects no permanent mental extirpation equivalent to the physical extremes of Abelard and Origen and of the Skapetz of the Danube Delta.
January 21, 2014
qms commented on the word extirpation
Though thieves in office face expiration
Their penitence only earns expiation,
So history owes
Defiant bozos
Contempt and complete extirpation.
April 19, 2019