Memorycide

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The deliberate destruction of all traces and physical reminders of a people. countable, uncountable

    "And we can but fear the consequence of this memorycide on the future of Lebanon."

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"And we can but fear the consequence of this memorycide on the future of Lebanon."

Etymology

From memory + -cide.

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