Meaning of principicide | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The killing of a prince.
   countable, rare, uncountable
2. One who kills a prince.
   countable, rare

Equivalents

Examples

“The Roumanians hold the world record for principicide, or the assassination of princes, with Serbia—whose record in this regard is not to be despised, either—a bad second.”

“Both of these stories, that he was exiled or placed in terror of his life, belong to a recognized genre invented to justify the principicide and yet continue the imperial system.”

“It was a terrible, but all too excusable crime, principicide.”

“The law has been vindicated, and the outraged feelings of the people of these colonies have been avenged by the execution this morning of the wretched man—the would-be principicide [Henry O’Farrell].”

“As it was not the ‘bullet,’ or the ‘pistol,’ or the ‘powder,’ that animated the would-be Principicide, so it is not the ‘consumptuous dinner’—not the fish, flesh, fowl, and good plum-pudding, that tends to increase the appetite for them.”

“The chances of immediate escape for a principicide must be taken as very small.”

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