Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Decapitation by means of the guillotine.
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In this poor National Convention, broken, bewildered by long terror, perturbations, and guillotinement, there is no Pilot, there is not now even a Danton, who could undertake to steer you anywhither, in such press of weather.
The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838
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