Dukicide
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Dukicide is a noun meaning The killing of a duke.
Meaning
The killing of a duke.
Example Sentences
One of the problems of being a duke was any that number of one’s followers might get it into their head they could be duke just as well as you, and succeed to the dukedom by dukicide.
HAMLET. What be this? Miching Malicho? / FAUSTUS. Miching Malicho. It means “mischief.” Lurid tales of murder and mayhem among the upper classes. That’s last week’s edition — juicy story of dukicide in Vienna. Enjoy.
Lady Lindsay, with that appetite for shrouds which is inborn in the female mind, kills Mary’s husband (a novelist should think twice before unnecessary dukicide) for no earthly reason; and the part of Dr. Jackson is awkward.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include regicide, tyrannicide, principicide, equicide, senicide, asinicide.
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