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victimiˈzation
[f. next.]
a. The action of victimizing, or fact of being victimized, in various senses.
1840New Monthly Mag. LIX. 397 The man who does not grow savage at victimization is an inert, unsentient booby. 1860A. L. Windsor Ethica v. 278 On Pope's complete victimization, perhaps, less stress is to be laid. 1885L. Oliphant Sympneumata 57 But the victimisation of the infant terrestrial man was not to be so fully consummated. 1900Pilot 30 June 544/1 The Companies Bill and the Money-Lending Bill..had the common object of putting down fraud and victimisation.
b. spec. in Theol. (See quot.)
1893Month April 485 Christ's Body in its Eucharistic state, which Theologians, when they explain the sacrificial character of the Mass, call a state of victimization.
c. spec. With reference to the imposition of penalties on trade union members who go on strike.
1923Westm. Gaz. 23 Apr., The expression ‘no victimisation’ implied that a striker's place was not to be filled by an outsider. 1925S. O'Casey Juno & Paycock i, in Two Plays 8 Why did they sack her? It was a clear case of victimization. 1957Listener 26 Dec. 1057/1 Victimisation, that ‘doubletalk’ word of today, was then a vivid and frequent reality. 1961Daily Tel. 16 Dec. 7/1 They will receive severance pay from the company and a share of a ‘victimisation fund’ to tide them over until they find other jobs. 1966[see Newspeak]. 1974Socialist Worker 23 Nov. 1/3 From the miners' ballot to the strikes of bakers and journalists, to the victimisation strike at Intex in Manchester, the will to fight is there. |