death warrant

noun

an official order authorizing the execution of the sentence of death.

anything that ends hope, expectation, etc.

Origin:
1685–95

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death warrant

—n
1.	the official authorization for carrying out a sentence of death
2.	sign one's death warrant, sign one's own death warrant to cause one's own destruction

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"It is a bore, I admit, to be past seventy, for you are left for execution, and are daily expecting the death-warrant; but ... it is not anything very capital we quit. We are, at the close of life, only hurried away from stomach-aches, pains in the joints, from sleepless nights and unamusing days, from weakness, ugliness, and nervous tremors; but we shall all meet again in another planet, cured of all our defects."

-Sydney Smith

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