levy en masse
Britishnoun
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No belligerent has the right to declare that he will treat every captured man in arms, of a levy en masse, as a brigand or bandit.
From Martyria or Andersonville Prison by Augustus C. Hamlin
The basis was the national will, expressed in the volunteers and the levy en masse.
From Britain at Bay by Spenser Wilkinson
Carnot was not discovered, the better men had not risen to command, the levy en masse had not been thought of.
From Lectures on the French Revolution by John Neville Figgis
Yes! upon my word, 'tis a levy en masse of all the female population of Anagyra!
From The Eleven Comedies, Volume 1 by Aristophanes
If his country is fighting by a levy en masse for her very existence, he aids her by depreciating her paper, so that he may accumulate fabulous amounts with little outlay.
From Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry by Albert Pike
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