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What does hecatomb mean?

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  1. (historical) In ancient Greece or Rome, a great feast and public sacrifice to the gods, originally of a hundred oxen.
  2. Any great sacrifice; a great number of people, animals or things, especially as sacrificed or destroyed; a large amount.
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I believe, in different climes, I have already sacrificed an hecatomb to my Nemesis, in pursuance of this vow.
Pile up, high as heaven, your hecatomb of victims, offered to the God of love.
The hunter turns faint, sick, as he contemplates this hecatomb of corpses.
Half a century ago the need to construct peace was patently obvious to those who had witnessed the hecatomb of the Second World War.
We might be tempted to question the legacy of such a hecatomb, followed 21 years later by the Second World War.
They would first make a hecatomb of their hated foes, and then fall upon it.

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