liberticide

American

[li-bur-tuh-sahyd] / lɪˈbɜr təˌsaɪd /

noun

destruction of liberty.
a person who destroys liberty.

liberticide British

/ lɪˈbɜːtɪˌsaɪd /

noun

a destroyer of freedom
the destruction of freedom

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liberticidal

adjective

Etymology

Origin of liberticide

First recorded in 1785–95; liberty + -cide

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The words he chose were very long and took up the whole line, and he evinced a marked partiality for such expressions as "tyrannically," "liberticide," "unconstitutional," and "revolutionary."

From The Fat and the Thin by Ernest Alfred Vizetelly

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