Usually means: Legal threat to discourage behavior.
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General (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. in terrorem: Wordnik
  2. in terrorem: Dictionary.com
  3. In terrorem: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  4. In Terrorem: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  5. in terrorem: Wiktionary

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. in terrorem: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  3. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  4. in terrorem: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (in terrorem)

▸ adverb:  As a warning or deterrent; in order to terrify or deter others.

Similar:
by thunder, thereat, hammer and tongs, to hell, the devil, hammeringly, vi et armis, fit to kill, amok, mob-handedly, more...

Opposite:
reassurance, comfort, encouragement

Phrases:
in terrorem clause, more...

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Similar:
by thunder, thereat, hammer and tongs, to hell, the devil, hammeringly, vi et armis, fit to kill, amok, mob-handedly, more...

Opposite:
reassurance, comfort, encouragement

Phrases:
in terrorem clause, more...



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