deicide
Americannoun
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a person who kills a god.
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the act of killing a god.
noun
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the act of killing a god
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a person who kills a god
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of deicide
1605–15; < New Latin deicīda deicide ( def. 1 ), deicīdium deicide ( def. 2 ), equivalent to Latin dei- (combining form of deus god) + -cīda, -cīdium -cide
Example Sentences
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And sometimes they bore the image of deicide, and went the way of despair.
From Salon • Sep. 1, 2024
Albert Cardinal Meyer of Chicago noted that even St. Thomas Aquinas had written that the Jews of Jesus' time were not formally guilty of deicide, since they did not know him to be God's son.
From Time Magazine Archive
Pointing out that Jesus and the Apostles were Jews themselves, Bea argued that the deicide charge had led to pogroms and persecutions.
From Time Magazine Archive
Answering the charge of deicide, Isaac points out that it is illogical to blame an entire people, most of whom never heard of Jesus, for the crime of a few.
From Time Magazine Archive
Guilty of this homicide, and this regicide, and this deicide, confess your guilt to-day.
From New Tabernacle Sermons by Talmage, T. De Witt (Thomas De Witt)
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