Father-slayer
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Father-slayer is a noun meaning (uncommon) One who kills or murders one's father; a patricide.
Meaning
(uncommon) One who kills or murders one's father; a patricide.
Example Sentences
Christy Mahon was the factor which destroyed the equilibrium of the lives of the Flaugherty's and Villagers, because he was an alleged fatherslayer.
The magus called Beast's Bane, who drew down sirithar and so could not be permitted to live, and who was a bastard and a warrior and a father-slayer, was also, impossibly, Stelian.
His eyes moved to Calandryll, once more asking an unspoken question. Bracht grinned conspiratorially, answering: “In a while ... He will post Calandryll outlaw, claiming him a father-slayer.”
In these aspects the relationship seems almost to follow an archetype of the relations between immigrant Jewish fathers and their talented sons in modern times. All such sons have been, in a sense, father-slayers.
Word Forms
- father-slayers
- fatherslayer
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include patricide, brother-slayer, parricide, fratricide, fatherfucker, fatherdom.
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