Spadassinicide
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ˌspɑd.əˈsɪ.nɪ.seɪd/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Spadassinicide is a noun meaning (rare) One who performs such an act.
Meaning
(rare) One who performs such an act.
More Meanings
- (rare) The act of coaxing someone, usually through insult, into initiating a swordsman's duel, and subsequently killing that person with superior skill so as to commit legal murder.
Example Sentences
Challenges are flying right and left between these bully-swordsmen, these spadassinicides, and poor devils of the robe who have never learnt to fence with anything but a quill.
Word Forms
- spadassinicides
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include dukicide, magistricide, senicide, assassinism, copicide, regicide.
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