[f. next.] The action of victimizing, or fact of being victimized, in various senses.
1840. New Monthly Mag., LIX. 397. The man who does not grow savage at victimization is an inert, unsentient booby.
1860. A. L. Windsor, Ethica, v. 278. On Pope’s complete victimization, perhaps, less stress is to be laid.
1885. L. Oliphant, Sympneumata, 57. But the victimisation of the infant terrestrial man was not to be so fully consummated.
1900. Pilot, 30 June, 544/1. The Companies Bill and the Money-Lending Bill … had the common object of putting down fraud and victimisation.
b. spec. in Theol. (See quot.)
1893. Month, April, 485. Christ’s Body in its Eucharistic state, which Theologians, when they explain the sacrificial character of the Mass, call a state of victimization.
