liberticide

American  

[li-bur-tuh-sahyd] / lɪˈbɜr təˌsaɪd /

noun

1. destruction of liberty.

2. a person who destroys liberty.

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liberticide British  

/ lɪˈbɜːtɪˌsaɪd /

noun

1. a destroyer of freedom

2. the destruction of freedom

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Other Word Forms

• liberticidal adjective

Etymology

Origin of liberticide

First recorded in 1785–95; liberty + -cide

Example Sentences

The major part of the clubs were filled with men, who formerly composed the revolutionary tribunals and societies; and their imprecations against kings, and their liberticide motions, made the Emperor fear, that he had revived the spirit of anarchy.

From Project Gutenberg

The conservative body you propose might be so constituted, as, while it would be an admirable sedative in a variety of smaller cases, might also be a valuable sentinel and check on the liberticide views of an ambitious individual.

From Project Gutenberg

These transactions, now recollected but as dreams of the night, were then sad realities; and nothing rescued us from their liberticide effect, but the unyielding opposition of those firm spirits who sternly maintained their post in defiance of terror, until their fellow-citizens could be aroused to their own danger, and rally and rescue the standard of the constitution.

From Project Gutenberg

But the hand of Heaven weighed heavily indeed on the machinations of this junto; producing collateral incidents, not arising out of the case, yet powerfully co-exciting the nation to force a regeneration of its government, and overwhelming, with accumulated difficulties, this liberticide resistance.

From Project Gutenberg

In this court Cæsar was crown'd, accurst liberticide; And he who murdered Tully, that cold villain, Octavius, tho' the courtly minion's lyre Hath hymn'd his praise, tho' Maro sung to him, And when Death levelled to original clay The royal carcase, FLATTERY, fawning low, Fell at his feet, and worshipped the new God.

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