Parricide
['pærɪsaɪd]
Definition
(noun.) the murder of your own father or mother.
(noun.) someone who kills his or her parent.
Edited by Gillian--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) Properly, one who murders one's own father; in a wider sense, one who murders one's father or mother or any ancestor.
(n.) The act or crime of murdering one's own father or any ancestor.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Patricide.
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Definition
n. the murder of one's own father or mother: the murder of a parent: the murder of any one to whom reverence is due.—adj. Parricid′al pertaining to or committing parricide.
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Examples
- At which speech even Mr. Sambo at the sideboard burst out laughing, and poor fat Joe felt inclined to become a parricide almost. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- But the Chinese monarch neither neglected the message as Heraclius did, nor insulted the envoys after the fashion of the parricide Kavadh. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Of parricides and other murderers he had tortures still more terrible to narrate. Plato. The Republic.
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