Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of putting to death by drowning; specifically, a mode of executing persons during the reign of terror in France, practised by the revolutionary agent Carrier at Nantes toward the close of 1793 and the beginning of 1794.
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- noun A drowning of many persons at once, -- a method of execution practiced at Nantes in France during the Reign of Terror, by Jean Baptiste Carrier.
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- noun A
murder bydrowning ; especially, one of those carried out during the French Reign of Terror.
Etymologies
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Examples
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They were fellow-victims in the noyade of marriage, but if they ceased to struggle perhaps the drowning would be easier for both ...
The Custom of the Country Edith Wharton 1899
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At the last issue, he and she were two separate beings, not made one by the miracle of common forbearances, duties, abnegations, but bound together in a _noyade_ of passion that left them resisting yet clinging as they went down.
The Greater Inclination Edith Wharton 1899
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Finding a rate of 200 executions a day insufficient he invented the noyade.
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The stately bridge was occupied by a throng of people, who swore that the men under whose rule the Loire had been choked with corpses should have full personal experience of the nature of a _noyade_.
Critical and Historical Essays, Volume III (of 3) Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay 1829
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The stately bridge was occupied by a throng of people, who swore that the men under whose rule the Loire had been choked with corpses should have full personal experience of the nature of a noyade.
Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 2 Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay 1829
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It is not easy to give a notion of his conduct in the Convention, without using those emphatic terms, guillotinade, noyade, fusillade, mitraillade.
Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 2 Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay 1829
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At the time while he admired the lovely miniature of a landscape, the poet had thought to himself, "'Tis a spot to make your mouth water for a _noyade_."
Lost Illusions Honor�� de Balzac 1824
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At the time while he admired the lovely miniature of a landscape, the poet had thought to himself, "'Tis a spot to make your mouth water for a _noyade_."
Eve and David Honor�� de Balzac 1824
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Two months afterwards, when the gates of Toulon had been opened to the army, and I was assisting at a noyade, I had the pleasure of seeing my jacobin _locum tenens_, who had been denounced in his turn, tied back to back to a female; it was my adored Cerise.
The Pacha of Many Tales Frederick Marryat 1820
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Two months afterwards, when the gates of Toulon had been opened to the army, and I was assisting at a noyade, I had the pleasure of seeing my jacobin _locum tenens_, who had been denounced in his turn, tied back to back to a female; it was my adored Cerise.
The Pacha of Many Tales Frederick Marryat 1820
sionnach commented on the word noyade
A mass drowning.
January 31, 2008