Electrothanasia
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 execution by electricity archaic, rare, uncountable
"[…] there is a want of harmony between electrothanasia, as it takes place, and the humane ideal of death by electricity as it seems to have been pictured in the minds of the promotors of the new law."
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More examples"[…] there is a want of harmony between electrothanasia, as it takes place, and the humane ideal of death by electricity as it seems to have been pictured in the minds of the promotors of the new law."
Etymology
electro- + Ancient Greek θάνατος (thánatos, “death”), perhaps modeled after euthanasia.
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