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- noun Plural form of
parricide .
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Examples
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She hatched out her romances with an ease almost equal to my own, always choosing the most dramatic subjects, such as parricides, seductions, murders, and even pocket-picking, always taking care, in passing, to attack the government and to preach the emancipation of female blackbirds.
Chapter VIII 1917
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I know a man — an excellent fellow, who, being himself a strong politician, constantly expresses a belief that all politicians opposed to him are thieves, child-murderers, parricides, lovers of incest, demons upon the earth.
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I know a man — an excellent fellow, who, being himself a strong politician, constantly expresses a belief that all politicians opposed to him are thieves, child-murderers, parricides, lovers of incest, demons upon the earth.
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Vous frémirez d'horreur quand vous saurez la situation où vous êtes, quand vous saurez que la force armée est confiée à des mains parricides; quand vous saurez que le chef de la garde nationale a été dénoncé au comité de salut public par le tribunal révolutionnaire comme un complice d'Hébert et un conspirateur infàme.
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There have always been fewer poisonings than have been spoken of: it is almost with them as with parricides; the accusations have been very common, and the crimes very rare.
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Go to, go to: neither God nor they shall prevent us from burning thee alive — the death inflicted on parricides and on philosophers who are not of our opinion. philosopher.
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[There are in penal servitude twenty-three parricides who have been allowed the benefit of _extenuating circumstances_.]
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If he saw that he was in a Christian family, he saw, at the same time, that he was in a family rendered distinguished by parricides; if he looked at the court bishops, he perceived that they were at once audacious and intriguing, and that all anathematized each other in turn.
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The great literary form that made Latin American literature as popular as the mambo has been assassinated by parricides and I missed it.
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That which it concerns us to know is, that you were parricides.
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