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death warrant

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death warrant
n.
1. Law An official order authorizing a person's execution.
2. Something that destroys hope or expectation; a deathblow.
death warrant
Noun
1. the official authorization for carrying out a sentence of death
2. sign one's (own) death warrant to cause one's own destruction
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Noun1.death warrantdeath warrant - a warrant to execute the death sentence
warrant - a writ from a court commanding police to perform specified acts
law, jurisprudence - the collection of rules imposed by authority; "civilization presupposes respect for the law"; "the great problem for jurisprudence to allow freedom while enforcing order"
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In the hush which followed, our crime was recited, the death warrant read, then everybody uncovered while a priest uttered a prayer.
A Connecticut Yankee by Twain, Mark View in context
As for Elizabeth herself, this invitation was so far from exciting in her the same feelings as in her mother and Lydia, that she considered it as the death warrant of all possibility of common sense for the latter; and detestable as such a step must make her were it known, she could not help secretly advising her father not to let her go.
Pride and Prejudice by Austen, Jane View in context
Because doing so would simply be signing the death warrant of Cornelius and John de Witt.
The Black Tulip by Dumas, Alexandre View in context
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