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Lord's Resistance Army

Lord's Resistance Army

9.9
A Ugandan rebel group that kidnaps children and attacks civilians
  • proper noun
  • NSFW
translation icon : Ejército de Resistencia del Señor
  • The Lord's Resistance Army has been responsible for numerous child abductions in northern Uganda.

Examples

  • Founded in 2007, the Enough Project focuses on crises in Sudan, eastern Congo, and areas of Africa affected by the Lord's Resistance Army.

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  • The conflict involving the Lord's Resistance Army has led to widespread fear among the local population.

  • Many humanitarian organizations are working to help victims of the Lord's Resistance Army.

Surface Forms

Lord's Resistance Army main

Morphology

Lord's + resistance + army

The nouns 'resistance' and 'army' transparently combine to mean an armed insurgent force, and the possessive 'Lord's' signals association with a named leader, so a B1 learner who knows the constituents can infer this is an army belonging to or led by a (self-styled) Lord. Specific historical details (that it is Ugandan or notorious for particular abuses) require extra world knowledge, but the basic referential meaning is compositionally clear.

Etymology

Lord's Resistance Army was named by its leader to make people think he had orders from 'the Lord' meaning God, and that his followers were an army set to 'resist' the government. So the name links religion and armed resistance.