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单词 patricide
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Definition of patricide in English:

patricide

noun ˈpatrɪsʌɪdˈpætrəˌsaɪd
mass noun
  • 1The killing of one's father.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The erstwhile history of Muslim rulers with their tendency towards fratricide and patricide was again upon the Mughals.
    • It's just that our society is now quickly turning body fat into a taboo, somewhere below incest and patricide.
    • The book opens, for example, with the public execution of Beatrice Cenci in Rome, for patricide, on Sept.11, 1599.
    • After all, even if a sultan died in his own bed of ‘natural causes’, poisoning would be suspected because patricide was the most common and convenient means of ascending the throne.
    • Many years earlier Teiresias had warned the Theban king Oedipus that he was guilty of incest and patricide, but Oedipus had heeded his warning too late.
    • It was horrific and gruesome and I wondered how any of these women could get through each day without committing patricide.
    • Being proud and genteel New Englanders, the salon-goers covered up their patricide with flattery, duly noting Edwards's considerable intellect and pious reputation.
    • This is, perhaps, the most horrifying of all the revelations in the poem and in the piece, for now we know that it was by his own Mother's counsel that Edward committed the heinous crime of patricide.
    • My Dad does this and it makes me what to commit patricide.
    • Calling the genre extreme is like calling patricide ungrateful.
    • She has suspected Maerose of planning patricide for some time now.
    • I think his obsession with patricide should occupy him at present.
    • The family dynamic gets splintered when Glen develops a second personality - Glenda - and starts acting out, leading to spectacular patricide.
    • Soon after the offering is made, Oedipus dies peacefully, his sins of incest and patricide forgiven by these benevolent goddesses.
    • They don't manage to fully convey the horrors of the patricide and tyranny that they have to contend with.
    • The first of the immeasurable crimes is patricide, killing one's father.
    • Rather than openly contemplating patricide, shouldn't you be identifying with your father so as to accommodate your Oedipal impulses?
    • The Chorus reminds Oedipus that he deserved punishment because it was he who first killed his own father Laius on the road to Thebes, committing the same crime of patricide that prohibits him from being buried on Theban soil.
    • It's about fratricide, patricide, matricide - the ultimate dysfunctional family.
    • Infanticide, patricide, suicide, gender bias, and substance abuse - are all to be found in various animal species.
    Synonyms
    murder, taking of life, assassination, homicide, manslaughter, liquidation, elimination, doing to death, putting to death, execution, dispatch, martyrdom
    1. 1.1count noun A person who kills their father.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • So this is really the old patricide begging sympathy because he's an orphan.

Derivatives

  • patricidal

  • adjective patrɪˈsʌɪd(ə)lˈpætrəˌsaɪdl
    • But the current younger generation, at least as it is on view here, doesn't have any of the patricidal or matricidal tendencies that young artists used to have.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • His flaming patricidal letter never came off the press, and his poem of political protest also did not see the light of day either in its entirety or in its original form in his own life time.
      • Soon, the contest heats up with greed, lust, and patricidal tendencies.
      • What could twelve murderous, incestuous, patricidal, wrathful, neurotic deities possibly find to loathe about Pan?
      • Only when denied of what he wanted most can he be free of patricidal guilt and be truly faithful to his ultimate love, Harry.

Origin

Early 17th century: from late Latin patricidium, alteration of Latin parricidium (see parricide).

Rhymes

fratricide, matricide
 
 

Definition of patricide in US English:

patricide

nounˈpatrəˌsīdˈpætrəˌsaɪd
  • 1The killing of one's father.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Calling the genre extreme is like calling patricide ungrateful.
    • She has suspected Maerose of planning patricide for some time now.
    • Infanticide, patricide, suicide, gender bias, and substance abuse - are all to be found in various animal species.
    • The first of the immeasurable crimes is patricide, killing one's father.
    • It was horrific and gruesome and I wondered how any of these women could get through each day without committing patricide.
    • This is, perhaps, the most horrifying of all the revelations in the poem and in the piece, for now we know that it was by his own Mother's counsel that Edward committed the heinous crime of patricide.
    • The family dynamic gets splintered when Glen develops a second personality - Glenda - and starts acting out, leading to spectacular patricide.
    • Rather than openly contemplating patricide, shouldn't you be identifying with your father so as to accommodate your Oedipal impulses?
    • They don't manage to fully convey the horrors of the patricide and tyranny that they have to contend with.
    • The Chorus reminds Oedipus that he deserved punishment because it was he who first killed his own father Laius on the road to Thebes, committing the same crime of patricide that prohibits him from being buried on Theban soil.
    • My Dad does this and it makes me what to commit patricide.
    • Many years earlier Teiresias had warned the Theban king Oedipus that he was guilty of incest and patricide, but Oedipus had heeded his warning too late.
    • I think his obsession with patricide should occupy him at present.
    • The erstwhile history of Muslim rulers with their tendency towards fratricide and patricide was again upon the Mughals.
    • It's just that our society is now quickly turning body fat into a taboo, somewhere below incest and patricide.
    • Soon after the offering is made, Oedipus dies peacefully, his sins of incest and patricide forgiven by these benevolent goddesses.
    • The book opens, for example, with the public execution of Beatrice Cenci in Rome, for patricide, on Sept.11, 1599.
    • Being proud and genteel New Englanders, the salon-goers covered up their patricide with flattery, duly noting Edwards's considerable intellect and pious reputation.
    • After all, even if a sultan died in his own bed of ‘natural causes’, poisoning would be suspected because patricide was the most common and convenient means of ascending the throne.
    • It's about fratricide, patricide, matricide - the ultimate dysfunctional family.
    Synonyms
    murder, taking of life, assassination, homicide, manslaughter, liquidation, elimination, doing to death, putting to death, execution, dispatch, martyrdom
    1. 1.1 A person who kills their father.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • So this is really the old patricide begging sympathy because he's an orphan.

Origin

Early 17th century: from late Latin patricidium, alteration of Latin parricidium (see parricide).

 
 
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