Examples of 'regicide' in a sentence

Meaning of "regicide"

regicide (noun): It refers to the action of killing a king or the person who kills a king. This term is used in historical contexts or in literature, particularly when discussing monarchies
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  • The killing of a king.
  • One who kills a king.

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Patricide and regicide in one swift act.
Regicide attacks the apex of civilised life.
I would say the same about regicide.
A regicide could only cause a stir.
Are you honestly suggesting that we committed regicide.
We are sending a regicide to take on a royal bodyguard.
Actual individual who committed the regicide.
The commemoration of an act of regicide falls short of expectations.
Regicide is defined as the killing of a king.
You are acting like this is your first regicide.
We are pressing regicide charges today.
All were accused of high treason and attempted regicide.
Regicide will not remain free for a long time.
Zubov died four years after the regicide.
Regicide is the killing of a king.

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This play is naught but a traitorous incitement to regicide.
Damiens was the last regicide or attempted regicide to be executed in this way.
Cartoon about love and regicide.
Regicide is forbidden.
He wants to blame the offense regicide to the empress.
The king saw this as an open invitation to rebellion and regicide.
See also regicide.
You will be tried for the traitorous and unconscionable act of regicide.
It was regicide.
Libényi was subsequently put on trial and condemned to death for attempted regicide.
He spoke of regicide.
This city was chosen through having witnessed the most gruesome and ruthless act of regicide.
I have spoken against regicide in the House.
She hopes to become like a man to stop any sense of remorse for the regicide.
He was executed as a regicide after the Restoration.
It is time for some regicide.
Regicide was a cherished ambition for this Jewish revolutionary.
You have selected regicide.
The regicide and subsequent events are hailed as miracles of God.
What you are seeing is regicide.
Dissatisfaction with the regicide among the Swedish peasantry soon led to a rising against Magnus.
These are calls to regicide.
He became the second regicide in the history of the Ottoman Empire.
My trial for regicide.
The concept of regicide is reflected in the single 's cover art.
Hardly counts as regicide.
The regicide was " a crime in which Æthelwald may very well have been involved.
Ruler himself regicide.
The regicide committed against the former King and Queen, fits well within this description.
To kill a king is regicide.
Denounced as a regicide at the Restoration, he and his wife fled to the Low Countries.
A couple counts of regicide.
John Downes, regicide and friend of Cromwell.
A clan that was known for its proclivity towards betrayal and regicide anyway.
Tragic endings, on-stage death and regicide became the norm rather than the exception.

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