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
In virtue of it the nation exists, and by the supreme warrant of it the nation maintains its existence against parricidal treason.
From The Continental Monthly, Vol 6, No 5, November 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various
This inimical attitude should have come as no surprise to students of either urban realities or of communism, their parricidal off-spring.
From The Belgian Curtain Europe after Communism by Samuel Vaknin
The seeming fabled story of early chivalry, in them renewed, Shines out to-day with an ascendent glory Above that field of parricidal feud.
From Purgatory by Mrs. James Sadlier
