Principicide
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Principicide is a noun meaning (countable and uncountable) The killing of a prince.
Meaning
(countable and uncountable) The killing of a prince.
More Meanings
- (countable) One who kills a prince.
Example Sentences
It was a terrible, but all too excusable crime, principicide.
The chances of immediate escape for a principicide must be taken as very small.
The Roumanians hold the world record for principicide, or the assassination of princes, with Serbia—whose record in this regard is not to be despised, either—a bad second.
Both of these stories, that he was exiled or placed in terror of his life, belong to a recognized genre invented to justify the principicide and yet continue the imperial system.
Word Forms
- principicides
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include regicide, dukicide, parenticide, tyrannicide, pedicide, tsaricide.
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