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  • noun The revision of history in order to omit something that actually happened.

Etymologies

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negation +‎ -ism

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Examples

  • What was mostly reported was clearly a conduct of what is described as negationism!

    Database of Press Releases related to Africa fgomez1 2010

  • I know, from my own personal experience, how cruel negationism is for the descendants of the victims of a genocide.

    Robert Badinter: Armenian Genocide: Dangerous Pity Robert Badinter 2012

  • Israel's self-defensive measures are equated with the long-standing Arab/Palestinian negationism.

    Andrew Pessin: Tony Judt's Trojan Gift Horse 2010

  • He stands accused of genocide ideology and negationism, the same crimes of which his client is also accused.

    Alice Gatebuke: Deadly Silence: Rwanda's Never Again Is Once Again? Alice Gatebuke 2010

  • Williamson be accused for negationism in that country.

    Archive 2009-02-01 2009

  • He cited the reinstatement of Bishops "one of which is the apostle - dare I say – of negationism."

    Archive 2009-03-01 2009

  • Denying the Holocaust is a crime punishable by prison and fines in France, and some critics accused Vanneste of negationism.

    FOXNews.com 2012

  • This historical negationism is melded to Islam's own theological supresessionism which abrogates Judaism and Christianity as deliberately corrupted, crude manifestations of the one true primordial monotheism, Islam.

    TUNDRA TABLOIDS....... 2010

  • The Holocaust remains a warning against the power of evil and all forms of oblivion and negationism, Benedict XVI said today as he expressed his "full and unquestionable solidarity" with Jews.

    Charlotte was Both 2009

  • The theme of the commemoration, Hon Mutabingwa confirmed was: "Let us keep alive the memory of genocide against Tutsi by fighting its revisionism and negationism".

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