parricidal
- 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
Brave man! tearing asunder your heart's dearest chords, to deliver your country from the parricidal stroke of fierce rebellion.
From The Continental Monthly, Vol 2, No 6, December 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various
A pretty and a sweet persuasion," exclaimed the priest, laughing heartily; "but, my dear son, I am not so easily killed, even if such parricidal thoughts were anything more than a jest.
From Corse de Leon, Volume I (of 2) or, The Brigand; a Romance by James, G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford)
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 Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
