parricides 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. In 1606, for instance, a pamphlet about a patricide–suicide stated that while “all killing is cruel and an enemy to nature, yet the unnatural and detested parricides … astonisheth all human reason to consider it, Appalleth all the senses to apprehend it, and exceedeth all credulity to believe such a thing to be done, till they behold it

2. In 1606, for instance, a pamphlet about a patricide–suicide stated that while “all killing is cruel and an enemy to nature, yet the unnatural and detested parricides … astonisheth all human reason to consider it, Appalleth all the senses to apprehend it, and exceedeth all credulity to believe such a thing to be done, till they behold it