Even private "tyrannicide" is warranted as a last resort to remove such a usurping tyrant, Beza allowed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest Articles] Reference

Priam was a tyrant, and tyrannicide was an honorable mission.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lord of the Silver Bow]

He was considered a noble tyrannicide, a sort of Finnish Brutus.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-03-01] Reference

Von Stauffenburg did not enter into his attempted tyrannicide easily.    From Wordnik.com.  [Valkrye] Reference

Therefore, in philosophical terms, we have never contemplated tyrannicide.    From Wordnik.com.  [INTERVIEW WITH MARIA SHRIVER] Reference

However, we are politically against tyrannicide; we never practiced tyrannicide.    From Wordnik.com.  [INTERVIEW WITH MARIA SHRIVER] Reference

Hitler was so illegal his own countrymen opted for a failed tyrannicide attempt.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wonk Room » Why Counting Undocumented Immigrants In The 2010 Census Counts For A Lot] Reference

There is an unconfirmed report according to which Menem is in favor of tyrannicide, referring to me.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mexican Newspaper Interviews Fidel Castro Part II Views Miami Summit] Reference

St. Just's depiction of Tallien as Antony implicitly associates Robespierre with Brutus, the tyrannicide.    From Wordnik.com.  [Annotations] Reference

After all, my first academic publication in the Humane Studies Review has a whole section on the philosophy of tyrannicide.    From Wordnik.com.  [EconLog: Economic Philosophy Archives] Reference

Jean Petit concerning the lawfulness of tyrannicide.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of Joan of Arc, Vol. 1 and 2] Reference

I'm not making a claim that tyrannicide is morally wrong.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rad Geek People's Daily] Reference

In some of the medieval writers revolution included tyrannicide.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lectures on Modern history] Reference

Lorenzino paid the usual penalty of tyrannicide some years later.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series] Reference

"The question of tyrannicide is marvellously interesting," answered.    From Wordnik.com.  [Saracinesca] Reference

"Yet you applaud tyrannicide," said the stranger with rationalistic gaiety.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ball and the Cross] Reference

He is commemorated, in political literature, among the advocates of tyrannicide.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lectures on Modern history] Reference

The question of the licity of tyrannicide occupied the attention of the council.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery] Reference

Pietro Strozzi, it seems, had allowed the tyrannicide one thousand five hundred crowns.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series] Reference

Then, fiercely challenging for himself a share in the glory of tyrannicide, he exclaimed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Caesar: a Sketch] Reference

A medal in honor of Lorenzino's tyrannicide was struck with a profile copied from Michael.    From Wordnik.com.  [Renaissance in Italy, Volume 1 (of 7) The Age of the Despots] Reference

Has not the reward of tyrannicide been paid before now to him who merely expelled a tyrant?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 02] Reference

It is in this manifesto that he applies euphemistically to her deed the term "tyrannicide.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Historical Nights' Entertainment Second Series] Reference

I was the liberator, the tyrannicide; I had freed all my fellows from the odious oppressor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Father and Son: a study of two temperaments] Reference

Alone, did I say? nay, not alone; I had my sword for company, my ally and partner in tyrannicide.    From Wordnik.com.  [Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 02] Reference

Alfieri and Niccolini, having taken, as it were, a brief in favour of tyrannicide, praised Lorenzino as a hero.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series] Reference

“I shudder at the thought of being amongst even conquered Athenians; I shall see a tyrannicide in every boy in the Agora.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Victor of Salamis] Reference

Did he imitate the Roman Brutus in the noble spirit of his predecessors, Olgiati and Boscoli, martyrs to the creed of tyrannicide?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series] Reference

Moreover, their written words accused them; for the tyrannicide of heretics was plainly advocated in their treatises on government.    From Wordnik.com.  [Renaissance in Italy, Volumes 1 and 2 The Catholic Reaction] Reference

When the assassin was questioned, he avowed the doctrine of tyrannicide, and quoted the sermons of the Jesuits in his justification.    From Wordnik.com.  [Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 1 of 8 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History] Reference