tsaricide
/ˈ(t)sɑːɹɪsaɪd/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "It had been those wishing to unleash a revolution “sooner,” so said the count, who had come to advocate tsaricide."
- "It would be manifestly unjust, I think, to extradite a Tsaricide upon the ground that he is not a political offender, and then allow his own government to try him by court-martial and hang him solely upon the ground that he is a political offender."
- "Thus, Boris Godunov suffered from a “miraculous” conflation of two incompitable myths: that he was a tsaricide, and that the real Dmitry still lived."
- "[U]pon execution of his crime, the tsaricide was to poison himself, leaving behind only an explanatory proclamation."
- "In fact, Katkov had begun singing this conspiracy theory tune immediately following Karakozov’s attempt, when it was rumored that the would-be tsaricide was a “foreigner” […]"
Etymology
From tsar + -icide.