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The word parricide is contrary to its original import, applied to the murderer of any near relative. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary on Genesis - Volume 1] Reference
University of South Florida who has studied the crime, called parricide, for more than 30. From Wordnik.com. [USATODAY.com News] Reference
You know, Bethany, the reality is that parricide, which is slang for parenticide, is very rare, much less when a girl, a girl, a teenager commits parricide. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 30, 2005] Reference
Must I be called a parricide, a traitor, a villain, lose the esteem of all those whom I love, to preserve my own; be shunned like a rattlesnake, or be pointed at like a bear?. From Wordnik.com. [Letters from an American Farmer] Reference
The contemplating a father's death and profiting by the contemplation, -- it seems a kind of parricide -- it is not natural, Randal. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852] Reference
You meant it to describe the slayer of a father; you should have used "parricide" instead. From Wordnik.com. [Mark Twain, a Biography. Complete] Reference
Senate had issued the sentence that the "parricide" was to be punished according to ancient custom. From Wordnik.com. [Quo Vadis: a narrative of the time of Nero] Reference
"An oppressor or betrayer of his country is justly called a parricide; for our country is the common parent of all. From Wordnik.com. [Conspiracy of Catiline and the Jurgurthine War] Reference
The contemplating a father's death, and profiting by the contemplation it seems a kind of parricide: it is not natural, Randal. From Wordnik.com. [My Novel — Complete] Reference
The "parricide," as Jefferson calls him, had not the slightest objection to fill his pockets with the plunder of his native State. From Wordnik.com. [Life and Times of Washington, Volume 2 Revised, Enlarged, and Enriched] Reference
This must have been before his attempted parricide. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844] Reference
VICARY: A lot of parricide, children who kill parents?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 19, 2002] Reference
This is the thing we ask, let the parricide be dragged. From Wordnik.com. [From the Talmud and Hebraica] Reference
I mean, this is very unusual, parricide, slang parenticide. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 28, 2008] Reference
After their parricide, remorse set in and a sense of guilt formed. From Wordnik.com. [ORIGINS OF RELIGION] Reference
He recognised him; it was he, the “monster,” the “parricide.”. From Wordnik.com. [The Brothers Karamazov] Reference
The man who thus abuses power is none the less a traitor and a parricide. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 29, March, 1860] Reference
And as we wait, we wonder if a new precedent has not been set for parricide. From Wordnik.com. [Menendez Justice] Reference
The Master said, “In an act of parricide or regicide, they would not follow him.”. From Wordnik.com. [The Analects] Reference
You meant it to describe the slayer of a father; you should have used “parricide” instead. From Wordnik.com. [Mark Twain: A Biography] Reference
I desire to know by whom, at what time, and in what manner, the said parricide was to have been committed. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 43, August 24, 1850] Reference
If he had not fallen in my way, I should have purged France of the regicide, parricide, patricide D'Orleans. From Wordnik.com. [A Residence in France During the Years 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795, Complete Described in a Series of Letters from an English Lady: with General and Incidental Remarks on the French Character and Manners] Reference
And in short, various stories are told about his death, which was like that of one found guilty of parricide. From Wordnik.com. [The Ten Books on Architecture] Reference
But what you see with parricide is usually there ` s child mistreatment involved or the child ` s a sociopath. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 30, 2005] Reference
Si Je ne l'eusse pas rencontre sous ma main, Je purgeois la France du regicide, du parricide, du patricide D'Orleans. From Wordnik.com. [A Residence in France During the Years 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795, Complete Described in a Series of Letters from an English Lady: with General and Incidental Remarks on the French Character and Manners] Reference
(This, which contradicts A, i, k, and allots to theft the punishment proper for parricide, seems a mere distorted tradition.). From Wordnik.com. [The Danish History, Books I-IX] Reference
I was told that even Lyle Menendez, on trial for parricide, had said about me in a telephone call, “He has things to work out.”. From Wordnik.com. [Menendez Justice] Reference
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