liberticide
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Causing the destruction of liberty; oppressive, liberticidal
Example Sentences
- "[…] by aſſembling at her houſe, in ſecret council, the principal chiefs of that conſpiracy, and by keeping up a correſpondence tending to facilitate their liberticide deſigns."
- "The conservative body you propose might be so constituted, as, while it would be an admirable sedative in a variety of smaller cases, might also be a valuable sentinel and check on the liberticide views of an ambitious individual."
- "M. Labriffe is a member of the Chamber of Deputies, and has, of course, voted for the liberticide laws."
- "All that has been done by the state since the revolt of May is liberticide of the most violent character."
- "In the hands of a designing executive, a standing army was the classic instrument of liberticide."
- "In language and logic we are the prisoners of our premises, just as in politics and law we are prisoners of our rules. Hence we had better pick them well. For if suicide is an illness because it terminates in death, and if the prevention of death by any means necessary is the physician’s therapeutic mandate, then the proper remedy for suicide is liberticide."
Etymology
From French liberticide, coined around the time of the French Revolution. Equivalent to liberty + -cide.
Origin
- Source language: French