OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 41961

crime against humanity

Meanings (ES + gloss)
crimen de lesa humanidad • delito de lesa humanidad
A very destructive and immoral act; later specifically, something causing widespread human misery or loss of life; an atrocity.
Be faithful to your friend that doth entrust you; remembring that perfidiousness or falseness to a friend, is a crime against humanity, and all society.
The Holocaust was a terrible crime against humanity; it took the lives of 6 million Jews, 2 million Poles, and hundreds of thousands of Gypsies, homosexuals, Russians, and the elde…
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