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- noun Plural form of
patricide .
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Examples
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This is one of the biggest horrors to think that a mother or a father can kill a child, that there are patricides, matricides, infanticides and all of this gets to the guts and the horror of everybody who is watching, who is thinking and who is fearing that such a thing could happen.
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This is one of the biggest horrors to think that a mother or a father can kill a child, that there are patricides, matricides, infanticides and all of this gets to the guts and the horror of everybody who is watching, who is thinking and who is fearing that such a thing could happen.
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How many pleasures have been enjoyed by robbers, patricides, tyrants.
The Meditations 2004
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Wherefore let every man know who fears God that they are estranged from me, and from Christ my God, whose ambassador I am -- these patricides, fratricides, and ravening wolves, who devour the people of the Lord as if they were bread; as it is said: "The wicked have dissipated thy law," wherein in these latter times Ireland has been well and prosperously planted and instructed.
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The professions of love and peace held out by the Swiss, he curses to the pit of hell, for they are patricides and matricides.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913
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How many pleasures have been enjoyed by robbers, patricides, tyrants.
VI 1909
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There is a fifth class, of patricides, assassins, in short of all infamous characters, whom I do not wish to recall from Catiline, and indeed they can not be separated from him.
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The history of the Byzantine Empire is a monotonous story of the intrigues of priests, women, and eunuchs; of poisonings, of conspiracies, of uniform ingratitude, of perpetual patricides.
Gathering Clouds: A Tale of the Days of St. Chrysostom 1831-1903 1895
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"Whoever injures the king has injured God!" yelled the king; "and whoever seizes our crown and reviles us, shall have his hand struck off, and his tongue torn out, as is done to atheists and patricides!"
Henry VIII and His Court Henry Niles Pierce 1843
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How many pleasures have been enjoyed by robbers, patricides, tyrants.
Thoughts of Marcus Aurelius Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius 1839
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