Papicide
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Papicide is a noun meaning (countable and uncountable) The killing of a pope.
Meaning
(countable and uncountable) The killing of a pope.
More Meanings
- (countable) One who kills (or attempts to kill) a pope.
Example Sentences
The ineffable self-satisfaction displayed by the young Turkish papicide during his interrogation and trial was not unreasonable.
If Bernard Bec, Peire de Castanet and Arnaud Garsie were, as it seems, telling the truth, it is possible that there occured^([sic]) at Perugia on 7 July 1304 indeed a case of papicide most foul.
The story, which would certainly have moved to tears the readers of Fr Bresciani’s feuilletons, smacked too much of invention and was too oozing with edification to be credible. If only there had been an actual attempted papicide with witnesses!
Ilmari? First name of a would-be Turkish papicide? A Libyan omnicide? No, merely that of an apparently mild-mannered Finn whose studies put him at the crossroads of the major influences so patently reflected in his music—those of Rachmaninoff and of the French Impressionists.
Word Forms
- papicides
- papacide
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