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The persecution of homosexuals which occurred in Nazi Germany, when seen as constituting systematic destruction of them.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: rare
Examples
- 1991 (English translation), Massimo Consoli (original author), Homocaust: From the Reform of Soviet Codes in 1934 to the Slaughter in Nazi Fields: Persecution of Homosexuals in Russia Under Stalin and in Germany Under Hitler (originally in Italian: 1984, Massimo Consoli, Homocaust: il nazismo e la persecuzione degli omosessuali)
Meaning relationships
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Antonyms: none provided
A systematic persecution of homosexuals, especially the one which occurred in Nazi Germany (the Homocaust), when seen as constituting systematic destruction of them.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: rare
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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Antonyms: none provided
Blend of homosexual + Holocaust. Possibly coined in 1986 in the pseudoacademic, Holocaust-denial-focused Journal of Historical Review; possibly attested already by the 1970s.
Blend of homo + holocaust. See Homocaust.
Across languages
Translations
4 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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French:
homocaust
— mass murder or persecution of homosexuals
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German:
Homocaust
— mass murder or persecution of homosexuals
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Italian:
homocausto
— mass murder or persecution of homosexuals
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Spanish:
homocausto
— mass murder or persecution of homosexuals
