sahwa
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[edit]Etymology
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[edit]sahwa pl (plural only)
- (historical) A series of political purges in the late 15th and 16th centuries, during which sarim scholars were persecuted by political rivals.
- 1999, Keith L. Pratt, Richard Rutt, James Hoare, Korea: A Historical and Cultural Dictionary, page 217:
- Executed during the sahwa of 1722.
- 2020, Ching Young Choe, The Rule of the Taewŏnʾgun, 1864-1873, page 205:
- The origins of factionalism in Yi Korea can probably be traced back to the sahwa (literati purges).