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US
/əˈsæsən/
]
[ UK /ɐsˈæsɪn/ ]
[ UK /ɐsˈæsɪn/ ]
NOUN
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a murderer (especially one who kills a prominent political figure) who kills by a surprise attack and often is hired to do the deed
his assassins were hunted down like animals
assassinators of kings and emperors - a member of a secret order of Muslims (founded in the 12th century) who terrorized and killed Christian Crusaders
How To Use assassin In A Sentence
- To buttress his stance that the Church sanctioned such assassinations, Petit drew on Thomas Aquinas and other theologians, but the defense rested on John of Salisbury's explicit theories about the legitimacy of tyrannicide.
- When in the following October the nobody met Katsu Kaishu, the enlightened commissioners of the shogun's navy, it might have been with intent to assassinate him.
- There has been terrorism in the world, more or less nonstop, since twelfth-century Syria, when a persecuted Persian religious sect called the Assassins knifed people to death in crowds. The Fiddler in the Subway
- He must turn rogue and villain; for as the saying is, Necessitas cogit ad turpia, poverty alone makes men thieves, rebels, murderers, traitors, assassins, because of poverty we have sinned, Anatomy of Melancholy
- As a monstrous assassin closes in and forces them to run, Jessa will have to find another way to discover if Matthias is her greatest ally — or her deadliest enemy. 2009 September « Items of Interest
- Labor Party leaders have denounced the talk as an attempt by the right to escape indirect blame for the assassination.
- So he induces Ray to offer Jonathan a vast sum of money to undertake an assassination in Berlin - money which the seriously ill and impecunious Jonathan badly needs.
- With a simple formula like this does Ninja Assassin deliver the goods, or does it fall on its own sword. Flixnjoystix.com! » 2009 » December
- Lord of the Rings, the tale of a pacifist-turned-assassin lugging a rifle to a dictator's heartland in order to get off that one critical shot. Zornhau: Merlin's Snake Oil – or why arcanists are not artillery
- During the trial he became so fearful of assassination that he had steel plates sewn into his hat.