assassination
/əˌsæs.ɪˈneɪ.ʃən/ nom C1En français : assassinat
- The murder of a person, especially for political reasons or for personal gain. · The assassination of the king occurred at night.
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Dans la bibliothèque
It is well they don’t have days of fog in the Latin countries—the countries of assassination.
Marseilles is filled with half-pay officers, who are daily, under one frivolous pretext or other, getting up quarrels with the royalists; from hence arise continual and fatal duels among the higher classes of persons, and assassinations in the lower.”
“Everything points to the conclusion, sire,” said the minister of police, “that death was not the result of suicide, as we first believed, but of assassination.
“That is in strict accordance with the Spanish character; an assassination they will unhesitatingly commit, but an act of cowardice, never.”
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