Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A destroyer of liberty.
- n. Destruction of liberty.
- That destroys liberty; liberticidal.
Wiktionary
- adj. Causing the destruction of liberty; oppressive, liberticidal
- n. The destruction of liberty.
- n. One who causes the destruction of liberty.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The destruction of civil liberty.
- n. A destroyer of civil liberty.
Etymologies
- From French liberticide, coined around the time of the French Revolution. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Legislators and activists who opposed the legislation said it would represent a Big Brother intrusion on civil liberties - they called it "liberticide" - while the European Parliament last month adopted a nonbinding resolution that defines Internet access as an untouchable "fundamental freedom.”
“That is how the usurpers get away with liberticide — incrementalism, at least until their control grid is completely in place.”
“I denounce the liberticide Brissot, the Girondist faction, the villainous committee of twenty-one in the National Assembly.”
“The major part of the clubs were filled with men, who formerly composed the revolutionary tribunals and societies; and their imprecations against kings, and their liberticide motions, made the Emperor fear, that he had revived the spirit of anarchy.”
Memoirs of the Private Life, Return, and Reign of Napoleon in 1815, Vol. I
“But the hand of Heaven weighed heavily indeed on the machinations of this junto; producing collateral incidents, not arising out of the case, yet powerfully co-exciting the nation to force a regeneration of its government, and overwhelming, with accumulated difficulties, this liberticide resistance.”
“A guard of Swiss stipendiaries is not enough for the liberticide schemes of the Capets.”
History of the Girondists, Volume I Personal Memoirs of the Patriots of the French Revolution
“But the hand of heaven weighed heavily indeed on the machinations of this junto; producing collateral incidents, not arising out of the case, yet powerfully co-exciting the nation to force a regeneration of its government, and overwhelming with accumulated difficulties, this liberticide resistance.”
“These transactions, now recollected but as dreams of the night, were then sad realities; and nothing rescued us from their liberticide effect, but the unyielding opposition of those firm spirits who sternly maintained their post in defiance of terror, until their fellow citizens could be aroused to their own danger, and rally and rescue the standard of the constitution.”
“Unequivocal evidence, it was said, had been obtained of the liberticide intentions of Great Britain; and only the successes of freedom against tyranny, the triumphs of their magnanimous French brethren over slaves, had been the means of once more guaranteeing the independence of this country.”
“These transactions, now recollected but as dreams of the night, were then sad realities; and nothing rescued us from their liberticide effect but the unyielding opposition of those firm spirits who sternly maintained their post, in defiance of terror, until their fellow citizens could be aroused to their own danger, and rally, and rescue the standard of the constitution.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘liberticide’.
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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phrontistery - l
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labarum, labefactation, labeorphily, labidometer, labile, lability, labiomancy, labret, labrose, labtebricole, lac, laccolith and 496 more...
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-cide words
aborticide to weedicide
aborticide, acaricide, algaecide, algicide, antipesticide, antisuicide, aphicide, bacillicide, bactericide, biocide, biopesticide, bullycide and 62 more...
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NTDW1
template, modal, sublingual, tandem, polycentric, septuagenarian, token, irrevocable, denotive, augural, aberrant, phlebotomy and 1188 more...
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Practical & Obscure words
Practical but Obscure words.
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2008 Wordlist
Hopefully, I'll be using this site for more than one year. It will be fun then to look back and see what new words I found worthy of notice in any given year.
All words spotted in 2008...longanimity, permalancer, breeder, biodegradable, handicapable, gender-neutral, translator, interpreter, translation, interpreting, kleptocracy, fanfiction and 1598 more...
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rememberers
prolix, ageusia, animadversion, anodyne, antic, arabesque, beadle, brachymetropia, colophon, desquamation, diaphoresis, diegesis and 3255 more...
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learning-list.
nugatory, fool, cell, cloud, architect, gelogenic, hallucinogen, esoteric, ignigenous, burn, nubigenous, apantomancy and 44 more...
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The Other Cide of Death
Words ending in "cide"
matricide, patricide, infanticide, parricide, insecticide, filicide, acaricide, algicide, avicide, bactericide, barbicide, biocide and 59 more...
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just cool words
liberticide, polysemous, scofflaw, iconoclast, aestheticize, laconism, Fourierism, a corps perdu, apotropaic, dichotomy, Epicene, languor and 13 more...
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Some Words
jabot, knell, volant, crasis, confute, toxophilite, bursar, glyptic, indifferentism, spang, carrel, liberticide and 65 more...
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Words in Marx
octroy, usufruct, synallagmatic, octroyed, oracle-finder, cosmopolitical, stockjobbing, pretorian, good-framed, strong-framed, unsteadiest, reconvalescents and 27 more...
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Adonais
Words that appear in Shelley's Adonais.
compeer, lorn, urania, sate, corse, amorous, liberticide, refulgent, charnel, anadem, sere, slake and 14 more...
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Percy Bysshe Shelley
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