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mass murder, slaughter, massacre, carnage, butchery, John Milton, William Shakespeare, ''Butchery'' refers to cold-blooded cruelty in the killing of men as if they were brute beasts., ''Carnage'' points to slaughter as producing the heaped-up bodies of the slain., ''Titus Andronicus, And raze their faction and their family, prey innumerable!, or much resistance., ''Paradise Lost'', ''Massacre'' denotes the promiscuous slaughter of many who can not make resistance, Behold this pattern of thy '''butcheries''', ''Richard III, I,ii'', slaughter., I,v''
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the savage and excessive killing of many people |