Monkeycide

Quick meaning: Monkeycide is a noun meaning The killing of a monkey.

Meaning

The killing of a monkey.

Example Sentences

I do not think I could commit Monkeycide myself. They look, as lady Macbeth says, so like our Fathers.

This consideration, together with our having nobler game in view, prevented us from committing monkeycide, although the temptation was always in sight.

Some chroniclers say that he was led through the streets with the dead monkey tied round his neck, and others, and these, I think, the more worthy of credence, affirm that, when he had passed his drills, he was given an extra allowance of “Guards” to expiate his crime of monkeycide.

But happily the reflection, ‘What would Professor Huxley say?’ joined with a certain ‘am-I-not-a-man-and-a-brother’ expression about the creature, checked me in time, and saved me from a crime worse than even monkeycide; for here there was no tail that I could have pleaded in excuse.

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