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CIVIL DEATH

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Dictionary entry overview: What does civil death mean?

• CIVIL DEATH (noun)
The noun CIVIL DEATH has 2 senses:

1. the legal status of a person who is alive but who has been deprived of the rights and privileges of a citizen or a member of society; the legal status of one sentenced to life imprisonment
2. cancellation of civil rights

Familiarity information: CIVIL DEATH used as a noun is rare.

Dictionary entry details

• CIVIL DEATH (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

The legal status of a person who is alive but who has been deprived of the rights and privileges of a citizen or a member of society; the legal status of one sentenced to life imprisonment

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("civil death" is a kind of...):

legal status (a status defined by law)

Domain category:

jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)

Sense 2

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Meaning:

Cancellation of civil rights

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

attainder; civil death

Hypernyms ("civil death" is a kind of...):

cancellation (the act of cancelling; calling off some arrangement)

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