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Terms vs Hecatomb - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between terms and hecatomb

is that terms is while hecatomb is (historical) in ancient greece or rome, a great feast and public sacrifice to the gods, originally of a hundred oxen.

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    hecatomb

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    (wikipedia hecatomb)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (historical) In ancient Greece or Rome, a great feast and public sacrifice to the gods, originally of a hundred oxen.
  • Any great sacrifice; a great number of people, animals or things, especially as sacrificed or destroyed; a large amount.
  • * 2002 , (Christopher Hitchens), "Martin Amis: Lightness at Midnight", The Atlantic , Sep 2002:
    • In Conquest's opinion, the visceral reaction to Nazism entails a verdict that it was morally worse than Stalinism, even if its eventual hecatomb was a less colossal one.
  • * 2006 , (Karen Armstrong), The Great Transformation , Atlantic Books 2007, p. 31-2:
    • During the royal hunt, the Shang killed wild beasts with reckless abandon, and consumed hecatombs of domestic animals at a bin banquet or a funeral.

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    * (English Citations of "hecatomb")