regicide
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- noun
- /ˈrɛdʒɪˌsaɪd/
- Formal
- Grotesque, as well, is the sheer audacity and distortion of the lie, as it transforms what was a violent act of regicide into a glorious, peaceful, loving ascension to divine status.
- commit regicide
- planning regicide
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Examples
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As Edmund Burke observed a few years later, in Letters on a Regicide Peace (1796), "Nothing in the Revolution, no, not to a phrase or a gesture, not to the fashion of a hat or a shoe, was left to accident.
Academic text (2015) -
With chillingly ruthless importunity, she urges her husband to commit regicide against their supposedly honored guest, Duncan.
Academic text (2018) -
He spoke of regicide.
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"To the gallows for the regicide," Gaston said, a reference to the mole's once-royal quality.
Fiction book (1992) -
A schizophrenic meta-novel about life, literature, and regicide, Pale Fire is Vladimir Nabokov doing what he does best: being completely mad.
Blog text (32) -
Every four years, Americans commit regicide with slow-drip character assassinations and months-long misinformation.
Blog text (23) -
There, Macbeth is reticent about committing himself to his wife's plans of regicide, but Lady Macbeth will prevail.
Academic text (1997) -
Jacobins actually went about quoting Raynal's exhortations to regicide and revolt; others (notably Talleyrand) blamed him for the Terror.
Academic text (2000) -
Outwardly seeming a most loyal thane and kinsman to his liege, Macbeth has already entertained thoughts of regicide in the previous scene and now in 1.4 greets the king.
Academic text (1997) -
The conspirators met in secret to discuss their plans for regicide against the tyrannical king.
Surface Forms
Morphology
regicide = regi + cide
The word is built from classical combining elements meaning 'king' and 'killing', but these parts are not transparent to an average B1 learner.
Etymology
Regicide comes from the Latin parts rex ('king') and -cide ('to kill'), the same -cide you see in suicide. So a regicide is the act of killing a king.