Regicide

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  • noun. The killing of a king.
  • noun. One who kills a king.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The killing of a king.
  • noun. A king-killer; one who puts a king to death; specifically, in English history, a member of the high court of justice constituted by Parliament for the trial of Charles I., by which he was found guilty of treason and sentenced to death in 1649.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. One who kills or who murders a king; specifically (Eng. Hist.), one of the judges who condemned Charles I. to death.
  • noun. The killing or the murder of a king.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. The killing of a king.
  • noun. One who kills a king.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. someone who commits regicide; the killer of a king
  • noun. the act of killing a king
    • Word Usage
    "The King had wisely left the business to Parliament, and, when the circumstances of the times, and the sincere horror in which good men held what they called regicide and sacrilege are duly considered, it must be owned that Parliament acted with humanity and moderation."
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    execution  killer  murder  slayer  slaying  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    adulterer  aider  bambino  favorer  fratricide  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    aborticide  fratricide  fungicide  genocide  germicide  
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