parricide
/par-uh-sahyd/US // ˈpær əˌsaɪd //UK // (ˈpærɪˌsaɪd) //
弑君,弑杀,弑杀他人,弑君行为
Definitions
n.名词 noun
- 1
- : the act of killing one's father, mother, or other close relative.
- : a person who commits such an act.
Examples
It is but too true that one fanatic is sufficient for the commission of a parricide, without any accomplice.
But a fanatical or parricide priest is not incited in this way; heaven is held out to him, and not a woman.
The boys had too much intelligence and shrewdness not to have judged their father; and to judge a father is moral parricide.
Now we are asked to allow a tomb-haunter to call a parricide to disclose that which he himself is ignorant of.
The contemplating a father's death and profiting by the contemplation—it seems a kind of parricide—it is not natural, Randal.
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