单词 | thought police |
释义 | > as lemmasthought police thought police n. (in a totalitarian state) a police force established to suppress freedom of thought; spec. (in pre-war Japan) the Special Higher Police (Tokubetsu Kōtō Keisatsu or Tokkō), which was set up to combat left-wing ideology; (also in extended use) any group intent on stifling thought (in recent use often in the context of political correctness). [Originally after Japanese shisō-keisatsu (1930) < shisō thought (see thought crime n.) + keisatsu police. Compare thought crime n.] ΘΚΠ society > law > law enforcement > police force or the police > political police > [noun] political police1833 security police1915 G-man1917 thought police1934 1934 U. Close Challenge: behind Face of Japan xxviii. 349 An entire picnic party of intellectuals was taken up on the beach by dangerous-thoughts-police.] 1934 Billings (Montana) Gaz. 7 Oct. (Suppl.) 3/1 The change is to be credited not to the ‘thought police’, but to the approaching emergency. 1938 W. Price Children of Rising Sun 46 Naturally the ‘thought police’ claim credit for the suppression of communism. 1945 Sun (Baltimore) 6 Oct. 4/1 It is an order imposing freedom of speech, thought, religion and assembly on the Japanese people, and requiring the immediate liberation of those imprisoned for political offenses by the so-called ‘thought police’. 1949 ‘G. Orwell’ Nineteen Eighty-four i. 49 He had denounced his uncle to the Thought Police after overhearing a conversation which appeared to him to have criminal tendencies. 1969 Guardian 5 Feb. 3/1 The Kremlin's thought-police are moving in slowly, circumspectly, on the Soviet scientific community. 2005 Independent 7 Nov. 16/3 His latest book..was to be printed in China. However, much production was moved offshore after complaints from the local thought police. < as lemmas |
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