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violationism

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English

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Etymology

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From violation +‎ -ism.

Noun

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violationism (uncountable)

  1. (archaic, derogatory) Painful and invasive experimentation on animals.
    • 1876, James John Garth Wilkinson, On Human Science: Good and Evil, and on Divine Revelation, page 521:
      Note here, before the war begins, how great the motives of violationism are to elude this jurisdiction, and therefore to deny the spiritual sense of the Holy Word.
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