principicide
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "The Roumanians hold the world record for principicide, or the assassination of princes, with Serbia—whose record in this regard is not to be despised, either—a bad second."
- "Both of these stories, that he was exiled or placed in terror of his life, belong to a recognized genre invented to justify the principicide and yet continue the imperial system."
- "It was a terrible, but all too excusable crime, principicide."
- "The law has been vindicated, and the outraged feelings of the people of these colonies have been avenged by the execution this morning of the wretched man—the would-be principicide [Henry O’Farrell]."
- "As it was not the ‘bullet,’ or the ‘pistol,’ or the ‘powder,’ that animated the would-be Principicide, so it is not the ‘consumptuous dinner’—not the fish, flesh, fowl, and good plum-pudding, that tends to increase the appetite for them."
- "The chances of immediate escape for a principicide must be taken as very small."
Etymology
From Latin prī̆nceps, prī̆ncipis + -cide.
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
Usage
Inflected Forms
principicides (plural)