Assertion: executioner | /r/HasProperty | constructed in reaction
Facets:
value: as an extraordinary being
type: MANNER
Source sentences:
text: The executioner as a modern, bureaucratic court office,” Friedland writes, “was constructed in reaction to the prevailing and long-standing conception of him as an extraordinary being, someone whose touch was so profane that he could not come into contact with other people or objects without profoundly altering them.