liberticide

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Opponents in the National Assembly have called it "liberticide."

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  1. A destroyer of liberty. His country's pride The priest, the slave, and the liberticide, Trampled and mocked with many a loathèd rite. Shelley, Adonais, st. 4.
  2. Destruction of liberty. The principles of Christian morality and Christian philanthropy were violated in the maxims of liberticide which guided the dominant politics of the country. Whipple, Starr King.
  3. That destroys liberty; liberticidal.

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  1. = French liberticide = Spanish liberticida, from Latin liberta(t-)s, liberty, + -cida, from cædere, kill.
  2. from Latin liberta(t-)s, liberty, + -cidium, from cæder, kill.
 

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