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- noun Plural form of
fratricide .
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Examples
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[ "Alas! our crimes and our fratricides are a shame to us!
The Essays of Montaigne — Complete Michel de Montaigne 1562
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[ "Alas! our crimes and our fratricides are a shame to us!
The Essays of Montaigne — Volume 17 Michel de Montaigne 1562
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"Hey, Jude, take me back to the beginning where the word was flesh, to when the world was new and the garden was not yet filled with serpents and fratricides, priests and thornapples."
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Within a single generation of the Fall, after all, we have the story of Cain and Abel and the first of the fratricides, oppressions, rapes, and moral failures chronicled with such depressing regularity in the Bible.
Beginner’s Grace Kate Braestrup 2010
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Within a single generation of the Fall, after all, we have the story of Cain and Abel and the first of the fratricides, oppressions, rapes, and moral failures chronicled with such depressing regularity in the Bible.
Beginner’s Grace Kate Braestrup 2010
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Within a single generation of the Fall, after all, we have the story of Cain and Abel and the first of the fratricides, oppressions, rapes, and moral failures chronicled with such depressing regularity in the Bible.
Beginner’s Grace Kate Braestrup 2010
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On the other hand, many families have now discovered that the military covers up fratricides.
Stan Goff: The Fog of Fame: Pat Tillman as Everyone's Political Football 2008
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Why were at least three other known fratricides reported falsely, and the families deceived, within a two month period of Pat's death?
Stan Goff: The Fog of Fame: Pat Tillman as Everyone's Political Football 2008
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They want but speech; if they had it, should we dare to kill and eat them; should we dare to commit these fratricides?
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The mare paced along with firm and cautious tread through the copse where Winterborne had worked, and into the heavier soil where the oaks grew; past Great Willy, the largest oak in the wood, and thence towards Nellcombe Bottom, intensely dark now with overgrowth, and popularly supposed to be haunted by the spirits of the fratricides exorcised from Hintock House.
The Woodlanders 2006
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