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From: ka@hou3c.UUCP (Kenneth Almquist)
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Subject: Re: Tobias' remarks in net.jokes (holocaust)
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Date: Tue, 15-Nov-83 22:58:54 EST
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holocaust:  n. 1. a great or wholesale destruction of life, esp. by
 fire.  2. an offering or sacrifice devoted wholly to burning; a burnt
 offering.

This from a 1951 copy of the American College Dictionary, printed 7
years after the end of WWII.  The 1970 American Heritage Dictionary
offers a third definition as well:  3. any widespread destruction.
Neither defines the Holocaust as referring a specific historical
event.  (The American Heritage Dictionary is, as its name implies,
quite cautious about sanctioning recently defined terms.)
				Kenneth Almquist