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‖ acharnement|aʃarnəmɑ̃, əˈtʃɑːnmənt| [Fr. n. of action, f. acharne-r to give a taste of flesh (to dogs, falcons, etc.) Included as a technical military term in James's Milit. Dict. 1816 which professed to give ‘the explanation of military terms in English, with the admixture of French words’.] Eagerness for blood, bloodthirsty fury, ferocity.
1816James Milit. Dict. (ed. 4), Acharnement, Fr., the rage and frenzy to which soldiers are subjected in the heat of an engagement. 1830Caledonian Merc. Sept. 30 The extraordinary acharnement of the Belgians against their Government. 1833Blackw. Mag. XXXIII. 502 The dreadful acharnement which marked the war on both sides—the acharnement of long-hoarded vengeance and maddening remembrances. 1854Badham Prose Halieutics 46 Leaping at it with all the acharnement of dogs on a boar's back. 1857De Quincey Wks. VII. 299 The Jewish acharnement against the Christians..would be inflamed to a frantic excess. |