单词 | parenticide |
释义 | parenticiden.1 rare. A person who murders one or both of his or her parents (or, in early use, any relative). ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > killing > killer for specific reason or type of person > [noun] > of relatives > of parent parenticide1656 1656 T. Blount Glossographia (at cited word) Parenticide,..he that murders his Father, Mother, Kinsman or dear Friend. a1834 S. T. Coleridge in J. Cottle Early Recoll. (1837) II. 249 Pain, dark Error's uncouth child, Blameless parenticide! 1972 20th Cent. Lit. 18 220/2 Remembering the Sermon on the Mount, we are to take the parenticide Jakob Apfelböck as a follower of the Biblical injunction not to concern oneself with worldly property. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). parenticiden.2 rare before 20th cent. The murder of a parent. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > killing > killing of type of person > [noun] > of relative > of parent parenticide1658 1658 E. Phillips New World Eng. Words (at cited word) Parenticide, a killing of ones Parents. 1870 Harper's Mag. Dec. 36/2 Parenticide sometimes follows from it, the heir feeling the old man to be a burden. 1917 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 22 655 Why, then, may not a change of complexion lead to infanticide and parenticide? 1994 MLN 109 1003 The one form of domestic crime that remains absent in her study—parenticide. 2001 Financial Times (Nexis) 26 Apr. 20 An appallingly suspenseful story of multiple family crime—excessive sexual repression, incest, domestic incarceration, parenticide, suicide. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.11656n.21658 |
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