Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The killing of a tyrant or despot.
- n. One who kills a tyrant or despot.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who kills a tyrant.
- n. The act of killing a tyrant; the putting a tyrannical ruler to death on account of his acts.
Wiktionary
- n. The killing of a tyrant.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The act of killing a tyrant.
- n. One who kills a tyrant.
WordNet 3.0
- n. killing a tyrant
Etymologies
- Greek turannos, tyrant + -cide.
Examples
“The parliament itself of Paris, the tribunal of justice, heard the harangues of the duke's advocate in defence of assassination, which he termed tyrannicide; and that assembly, partly influenced by faction, partly overawed by power, pronounced no sentence of condemnation against this detestable doctrine. [”
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“For extreme cases some, he tells us, have suggested tyrannicide, that is, execution by private persons.”
“The sixth is, when the commands are grievous; and they account him that commandeth grievous things, a tyrant; and tyrannicide, that is, the killing of a tyrant, not only lawful, but also laudable.”
“Even private "tyrannicide" is warranted as a last resort to remove such a usurping tyrant, Beza allowed.”
“There are lots of cases where killing is legitimate: among them being just war, tyrannicide, and the death penalty.”
“Hitler was so illegal his own countrymen opted for a failed tyrannicide attempt.”
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“Since most of us today, whether by choice or otherwise, are Lockean constitutionalists, we would do well to start this analysis with an overview of the conditions under which that influential political philosopher justified the citizens '' appeal to heaven ', that is, to tyrannicide.”
“After all, my first academic publication in the Humane Studies Review has a whole section on the philosophy of tyrannicide.”
“St. Just's depiction of Tallien as Antony implicitly associates Robespierre with Brutus, the tyrannicide.”
“He was considered a noble tyrannicide, a sort of Finnish Brutus.”
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