Terrorist
['terərɪst] or ['tɛrərɪst]
Definition
(noun.) a radical who employs terror as a political weapon; usually organizes with other terrorists in small cells; often uses religion as a cover for terrorist activities.
Typist: Sol--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) One who governs by terrorism or intimidation; specifically, an agent or partisan of the revolutionary tribunal during the Reign of Terror in France.
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Examples
- Not of course by criminal terrorist and counterrevolutionary organizations. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- There was more agrarian revolt in the north than in the south; the Steel Boys, and later the Peep-o'-Day Boys, were Ulster terrorists. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- I passed by a group of these terrorists, in a lane in the direct road to the hut. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
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