parricide in English

noun
1
the killing of a parent or other near relative.
The work ends on a heart-stopping note: A man and woman step forward and read names of those wrongly convicted for murder, parricide , rape, child molestation, with the length of imprisonment.

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1. 9 Can that be the cause of my being suspected of parricide ?

2. 7 Fear and greed expose the spaceship crew to an alien parricide parasite .

3. 5 How do we know that there was an original crime of parricide?

4. 4 Godoy struck first hoping, in the Escorial Trial, that Ferdinand might be found guilty of political parricide.

5. 1 The memory of the parricide was both important enough, and repeated often enough, to enter the archaic heritage.

6. 10 We hear our bloody cousins are bestowed in England and in Ireland,(www.Sentencedict.com) not confessing their cruel parricide .

7. 2 In Wagner's opera Parsifal the trauma of parricide is there in the background, but is unconscious.

8. • Tu n'en fis pas assez, reine de sang Avide ; Il fallait joindre encor l'inceste au parricide ! (CRÉBILLON Sémir

9. 13 We know the secret reason, the reason for his parricide ,[www.Sentencedict.com] the silent and illusive try to stop the fleeting hands of time.

10. And yet, he made bold to say, the horror that even the crime of parricide inspired in him paled beside the loathing inspired by my callousness .

11. 6 We know the secret reason, the reason for his parricide , the silent and illusive try to stop the fleeting hands of time.

12. 3 In his Totem and Taboo Freud made such an act of primal parricide and rape the origin of all subsequent human culture.

13. 11 And yet, he made bold to say, the horror that even the crime of parricide inspired in him paled beside the loathing inspired by my callousness .

14. 8 There Oliverotto too was captured, a year after he committed his parricide, * and together with Vittellozzo, who had been his teacher in his virtues and wickedness, he was strangled.

15. There Oliverotto too was captured, a year after he committed his parricide, * and together with Vittellozzo, who had been his teacher in his virtues and wickedness, he was strangled.

16. Illumined by the Coffined dead, the scene reveals the grisly content of many a folk tale or song — murder, execution, infanticide, parricide — along with the bloody implements by which these violent acts were accomplished

17. The amendment removes from the Constitution the reference to the imposition of the death penalty for the crimes of treason during war with a foreign country, parricide, homicide with malice aforethought or premeditation or for gain, arson, kidnapping, highway robbery and piracy and for serious military offences.