parricide
noun
the act of killing one's father, mother, or other close relative.
parricidal
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a word derived from
parricide.
Example Sentences
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The Yankees are more like a grimly real family: sullen and bruised by grievances and quarrelsome and full of parricidal silences.
From Time Magazine Archive
Whenever the two got together to swap dreams, Freud would invariably find parricidal elements in Jung's dream scenes.
From Time Magazine Archive
He maintains continually, and without blurring its lines by a word of reservation or compromise, the dogma of State Sovereignty in its most extreme and almost parricidal form.
From A History of the United States by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
It resulted necessarily from his duplicity, his parricidal projects, and his English connexions.
From Memoirs of the Private Life, Return, and Reign of Napoleon in 1815, Vol. I by Pierre Alexandre Édouard, baron Fleury de Chaboulon
Blood-red last night I saw great Kronos rise; the crescent moon Sank through the mist, as if it were the scythe His parricidal hand had flung far down The western steeps.
From The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
