Meaning of Parricide | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Someone who kills a relative, especially a parent.
2. The killing of a relative, especially a parent.
   countable, uncountable
3. Someone who commits treason.
4. The killing of a ruler, or other authority figure; treason.
   countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“I told him the reuenging Gods, / ’Gainst Paricides did all the thunder bend […]”

“The new accusation brought by Urban against Manfred of murdering his sister-in-law's embassador – it may be observed that, tacitly, he acquits him of parricide, fratricide, and nepoticide – requires a little explanation.”

“The production of Schiller’s ‘Don Carlos’ was long forbidden, because Don Carlos loved his stepmother; in ‘The Robbers,’ the Father was turned into an uncle, and a stupendous effect was produced by the cry of “Unclecide,” substituted for Parricide.”

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