Recriminalization

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The act of recriminalizing. countable, uncountable

    "Extra-legal raids in Moscow and Leningrad in which 130 males were arrested in late summer 1933 were the harbinger of the recriminalization of male homosexuality later that year."

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"Extra-legal raids in Moscow and Leningrad in which 130 males were arrested in late summer 1933 were the harbinger of the recriminalization of male homosexuality later that year."

Etymology

From re- + criminalization.

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