Phrase guide
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name
Any one of several specific white terrors in history.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: government, history, human-sciences, politics, sciences
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Antonyms: none provided
noun
Coordinated violence committed against (actual or imagined) socialists and their sympathizers.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: government, politics
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Antonyms: red terror
noun
The erosion of democratic freedoms under Chinese rule.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Hong-Kong, countable, uncountable
Topics: government, politics
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Antonyms: none provided
History
By analogy with red terror, with the "white" Thermidorian Reaction against the "red" reign of terror.
Across languages
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