All 3 Uses
edict
in
I Am Malala
(Edited)
- Every day it seemed a new edict came.
p. 118.7edict = order
- I wrote about being afraid to go to school because of the Taliban edict and looking over my shoulder all the time.
p. 155.9
- I wore pink to the gala and talked publicly about how we had defied the Taliban edict and carried on going to school secretly.
p. 214.8 *
Definitions:
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(1)
(edict) an order -- typically a formal proclamation or a legally binding court decreeSynonym Comparison (if you're into word choice):
As compared to "proclamation", "order", or "legal finding", "edict" is often chosen to imply that the order is unfair. - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)