Assassins

//əˈsæsɪnz// noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    plural of assassin form-of, plural

Example

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"On the 2nd of September 1792 when the general massacre of the prisoners took place at Paris, M. Sombreuil was on the point of being sacrificed when he was rescued from the hands of the assassins by the heroic conduct of his daughter, though on the dreadful condition that she would drink success to the republic in a goblet of blood!"

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