regicide
/rej-uh-sahyd/US // ˈrɛdʒ əˌsaɪd //UK // (ˈrɛdʒɪˌsaɪd) //
弑君,弑君者,弑神,弑主
Definitions
n.名词 noun
- 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.”
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