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regicide

/rej-uh-sahyd/US // ˈrɛdʒ əˌsaɪd //UK // (ˈrɛdʒɪˌsaɪd) //

弑君,弑君者,弑神,弑主

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the killing of a king.
    • : a person who kills a king or is responsible for his death, especially one of the judges who condemned Charles I of England to death.

Examples

  • We find in the Old Testament that the regicide is applauded; that treason and rebellion are approved.

  • I would even go further, and say that, without any warm devotion to a king, a man may hate a regicide.

  • Roma imagined she could see everything as it was intended353 to be—the signal, the rising, the regicide.

  • A less revolutionary assembly never met, though there was a regicide or two among them.

  • After the Restoration Axtell was put to his trial as a “regicide.”