Reginicide

Quick meaning: Reginicide is a noun meaning Alternative form of reginacide.

Meaning

Alternative form of reginacide.

Example Sentences

Others, like the Americans and the Australians, may be guilty of reginicide of the Queen’s English, but in Ireland the old girl is simply deposed and sent into exile.

This article aims to examine the death of Marie-Antoinette from a political point of view by focusing on the concept of reginicide, defined as the execution or the murder of a queen consort in a hereditary monarchy.

Had Edward Oxford been hanged for shooting at Queen Victoria in 1840, his death would have stirred up scores of silly shopboys to regicide (or reginicide), merely from the inscrutable passion for notoriety; for being thought about and talked about—that has much power over man’s vanity.

He is, in any case, extremist enough to have decided to assassinate the Queen, out of frustration with his ‘token life, token education, token job, token family.’ He impresses Percy with his proposal to restore the ‘Ancient Kingdom of Northumbria’ and persuades him to help with the ‘reginicide.’

Word Forms

• reginicides

Related Words

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