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Synonyms for hecatomb

Grammar : Noun
Spell : hek-uh-tohm, -toom
Phonetic Transcription : ˈhɛk əˌtoʊm, -ˌtum

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Définition of hecatomb

Origin :
  • 1590s, from Greek hekatombe "offering of 100 oxen," but generally "a great public sacrifice," from hekaton "one hundred" (perhaps from hen, neuter of eis "one" + *katon "hundred") + bous "ox." The first month of the Attic calendar (corresponding to July-August) was Hekatombaion, in which sacrifices were made.
  • As in carnage : noun massacre
  • As in immolation : noun sacrifice
Example sentences :
  • He escorted Chryseis on board and sent moreover a hecatomb for the god.
  • Extract from : « The Iliad » by Homer
  • The hunter turns faint, sick, as he contemplates this hecatomb of corpses.
  • Extract from : « The Death Shot » by Mayne Reid
  • They would first make a hecatomb of their hated foes, and then fall upon it.
  • Extract from : « The Lone Ranche » by Captain Mayne Reid
  • Make a hecatomb of the present Hamleys all at once, while you are about it.
  • Extract from : « Wives and Daughters » by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
  • Pile up, high as heaven, your hecatomb of victims, offered to the God of love.
  • Extract from : « The Spanish Brothers » by Deborah Alcock
  • Yearly will Charless Bath claim its hecatomb; I know not why.
  • Extract from : « My Experiences in a Lunatic Asylum » by Herman Charles Merivale
  • Consumption had swept a hecatomb of victims from the family.
  • Extract from : « The Eustace Diamonds » by Anthony Trollope
  • Before falling, I should make a hecatomb of my cowardly assassins.
  • Extract from : « The Bandolero » by Mayne Reid
  • I believe, in different climes, I have already sacrificed an hecatomb to my Nemesis, in pursuance of this vow.
  • Extract from : « Clarissa, Volume 1 (of 9) » by Samuel Richardson
  • Then Cinna, who not long before would have laughed at faith in Hecate, sacrificed a hecatomb to her.
  • Extract from : « Let us follow Him » by Henryk Sienkiewicz

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