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1. (n.) Reign of Terror
a period of the French Revolution (1793–94) during which many persons were ruthlessly executed by the ruling faction.
2. Reign of Terror
(l.c.) any period or situation of ruthless oppression or violence.
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1. (noun) reign of terror
any period of brutal suppression thought to resemble the Reign of Terror in France
2. (noun) Reign of Terror
the historic period (1793-94) during the French Revolution when thousands were executed
"the Reign of the Bourbons ended and the Reign of Terror began"
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1. reign of terror
the name given to the bloody consummation of the fiery French Revolution, including a period which lasted 420 days, from the fall of the Girondists on the 31st May 1793 to the overthrow of Robespierre and his accomplices on 27th July 1794, the actors in which at length, seeing nothing but "Terror" ahead, had in their despair said to themselves, "Be it so. Que la Terreur soit à l'ordre du jour (having sown the wind, come let us reap the whirlwind). One of the frightfulest things ever born of Time. So many as four thousand guillotined, fusilladed, noyaded, done to dire death, of whom nine hundred were women."
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