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regicide
[ rej-uh-sahyd ]
noun
- the killing of a king.
- a person who kills a king or is responsible for his death, especially one of the judges who condemned Charles I of England to death.
regicide
/ ˈrɛdʒɪˌsaɪd /
noun
- the killing of a king
- a person who kills a king
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Derived Forms
- ˌregiˈcidal, adjective
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Other Words From
- regi·cidal adjective
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of regicide1
C16: from Latin rēx king + -cide
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Example Sentences
We find in the Old Testament that the regicide is applauded; that treason and rebellion are approved.
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I would even go further, and say that, without any warm devotion to a king, a man may hate a regicide.
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Roma imagined she could see everything as it was intended353 to be—the signal, the rising, the regicide.
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A less revolutionary assembly never met, though there was a regicide or two among them.
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After the Restoration Axtell was put to his trial as a “regicide.”
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