Definition of deicide in English:
deicide
noun ˈdiːɪsʌɪdˈdeɪɪsʌɪdˈdiəˌsaɪd
1The killer of a god.
- 1.1mass noun The killing of a god.
Example sentencesExamples
- In particular, I never heard any accusation of deicide directed against my people.
- Their sin is not deicide any more, nor are they are accused of possessing sinister racial traits.
- Of course, priests have preached deicide from the pulpits, biblical commentaries have explained it, and pogroms were based upon it.
- The Catholic Church officially disavowed the charge of deicide against the Jewish people only in 1965, nine years after my grandfather died, and two years after my First Communion.
- Actually, it's a bit hazy on whether it was deicide or suicide.
Derivatives
adjective
For the writer, they are themselves murderers, guilty of ‘grave crimes and offenses,’ including the most dreadful crime of all: the deicidal immolation of the Son of God.
Example sentencesExamples
- In his early years as political agitator in Bavaria he frequently played on the deicidal myth and on his own messianic role as a militant Germanic saviour.
- However he does have a point about the Deicidal tendencies of materialist evolutionists.
- However, to truly work in His image would be to create our own means of self alteration through taking on some kind of avatar or fictionsuit, rather than miss the point and go deicidal.
Origin
Early 17th century: from ecclesiastical Latin deicida 'killer of a god', or directly from Latin deus 'god' + -cide.