terrorism

The system of fear and intimidation put into place during the Reign of Terror in Revolutionary France around 1793-94.

Noun

  1. The system of fear and intimidation put into place during the Reign of Terror in Revolutionary France around 1793-94.
    • In England I was proscribed for having vindicated the French Revolution, and I have suffered a rigorous imprisonment in France for having pursued a similar mode of conduct. During the reign of terrorism, I was a close...
  2. The use of unlawful violence against people or property to achieve political objectives.
    • The threat of terrorism to the British lies in the overreaction to it of British governments. Each one in turn clicks up the ratchet of surveillance, intrusion and security. Each one diminishes liberty. David Cameron...

    1. (by extension) The use of intimidation or bullying tactics.

      • We at the GCN Prisoner Project often get letters from prisoners who are being harassed (above and beyond the usual terrorism of the prison business) because of their being queer. - 1984 February 11, “GCN Gay And Lesbian...
  3. Deliberate misspelling of tourism.

Origin

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *tres- Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti Proto-Indo-European *troséyeti Proto-Italic *trozeō Latin terreō Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *-ōs Proto-Italic *-ōs Latin -or Latin terrorbor. Old French terreur Middle French terreur French terreur Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Indo-European *-mos Proto-Indo-European *-mós Ancient Greek -μός (-mós) Ancient Greek -ῐσμός (-ĭsmós)der. Latin -ismusbor. French -isme French terrorisme English terrorism From French terrorisme, from terreur + -isme. By surface analysis, terror + -ism. The word first appears in English in 1795 in reference to the Jacobin radicals of France, who ruled during the Reign of Terror.

Forms

terrorisms

Hyponyms

agroterrorism bioterrorism cyberterrorism domestic terrorism ecoterrorism electronic terrorism narcoterrorism

Derived

antiterrorism counter-terrorism cyber-terrorism cyber terrorism economic terrorism ecoterrorism eco-terrorism Islamoterrorism narcoterrorism nonterrorism nuclear terrorism pharmacoterrorism stochastic terrorism sushi terrorism terrorism ball terrorist theoterrorism