单词 | purgee |
释义 | purgeen. A person who is expelled from an organization, esp. a political party, or who is excluded from a position of power. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > exclusion from society > [noun] > one expelled or excluded from public life purgee1938 1938 Kiplinger Washington Let. (Kiplinger Washington Agency) 3 Sept. 4 Reelection of purgees will strengthen non-New Dealers in next Congress. 1958 Economist 1 Nov. 421/2 Mr Kishi, a former ‘purgee’ and suspected ‘war criminal’, became prime minister in February last year. 1981 Human Rights Q. 3 138 The Chinese press uses allegory... This makes it easier to reintegrate a rehabilitated purgee later. 2003 G. Shteyngart Russ. Debutante's Handbk. v. xxiii. 245 Any minute now, it seemed, a Stalinist denunciation was to begin, with him the purgee. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1938 |
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