liberticide

[ li-bur-tuh-sahyd ]

noun

1. destruction of liberty.
2. a person who destroys liberty.

liberticide

/ lɪˈbɜːtɪˌsaɪd /

noun

1. a destroyer of freedom
2. the destruction of freedom

Derived Forms

• liˌbertiˈcidal, adjective

Other Words From

• li·berti·cidal adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of liberticide¹

First recorded in 1785–95; liberty + -cide

Example Sentences

Mr. King might have reflected that the author of the "Rights of Man," which he had admired, was personally safer in regicide France than in liberticide England, which had outlawed him.

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Such liberticide must be answered by tyrannicide!

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The major part of the clubs were filled with men, who formerly composed the revolutionary tribunals and societies; and their imprecations against kings, and their liberticide motions, made the Emperor fear, that he had revived the spirit of anarchy.

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Unequivocal evidence, it was said, had been obtained of the liberticide intentions of Great Britain; and only the successes of freedom against tyranny, the triumphs of their magnanimous French brethren over slaves, had been the means of once more guaranteeing the independence of this country.

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A guard of Swiss stipendiaries is not enough for the liberticide schemes of the Capets.

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