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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