What's the difference between fratricidal and fratricide?

Fratricidal


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to fratricide; of the nature of fratricide.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He added that some postings were "rhetoric that brings back memories of tragic, fratricidal, factional conflicts in the 1990s that cost the lives of tens of thousands of civilians".
  • (2) Andrew Cooper, Conservative peer: ‘It is no accident that Fallon used Miliband’s political fratricide as his simile’ Facebook Twitter Pinterest Andrew Cooper.
  • (3) The fratricidal fighting erupted several weeks before a much-anticipated detente scheduled for 22 January in Geneva, adding another layer of complexity to a war that long ago ceased to have two clear-cut protagonists.
  • (4) Referring to Cain's fratricide, the authors investigate the origin of guilt.
  • (5) Though Ed Miliband has been happy to admit past Labour errors on Murdoch and other matters, his appetite for political fratricide may be sated.
  • (6) So both sides in this fratricidal power struggle are left weakened.
  • (7) Of course, it is no accident that the defence secretary, Michael Fallon, chose to use Miliband’s political fratricide as his simile.
  • (8) Tragically, there is the possibility that 'fratricide' may have been involved."
  • (9) Look around the Tory party today, and chaos reigns; Britain feels more socially fratricidal than I have ever known it.
  • (10) For the radical socialist left in Scotland, this is the continuation of a fratricidal nightmare.
  • (11) Rather it is that religious prejudice, once awakened, is destablising, fratricidal, and difficult for anyone to control.
  • (12) He was a good lad.” I remarked what an extraordinary testament it was to the mindless, fratricidal nature of the conflict that he was mourning the death of one of his captors.
  • (13) George Clooney's political drama The Ides of March is about a Democratic primary campaign unfolding in the key state of Ohio, in an atmosphere heavy with fratricidal betrayal behind the scenes.
  • (14) The speed and extent of peptide-induced changes in the appearance of CTLs suggest that the destruction may be due primarily to self-recognition and self-destruction of individual CTLs (suicide) rather than to the destruction of some CTLs by others of the same clone in the same culture (fratricide).
  • (15) After being at each other's throats for years in fratricidal wars, we're now all culturally European."
  • (16) There was talk of fratricide, and comparisons were made with Cain and Abel.

Fratricide


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of one who murders or kills his own brother.
  • (n.) One who murders or kills his own brother.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He added that some postings were "rhetoric that brings back memories of tragic, fratricidal, factional conflicts in the 1990s that cost the lives of tens of thousands of civilians".
  • (2) Andrew Cooper, Conservative peer: ‘It is no accident that Fallon used Miliband’s political fratricide as his simile’ Facebook Twitter Pinterest Andrew Cooper.
  • (3) The fratricidal fighting erupted several weeks before a much-anticipated detente scheduled for 22 January in Geneva, adding another layer of complexity to a war that long ago ceased to have two clear-cut protagonists.
  • (4) Referring to Cain's fratricide, the authors investigate the origin of guilt.
  • (5) Though Ed Miliband has been happy to admit past Labour errors on Murdoch and other matters, his appetite for political fratricide may be sated.
  • (6) So both sides in this fratricidal power struggle are left weakened.
  • (7) Of course, it is no accident that the defence secretary, Michael Fallon, chose to use Miliband’s political fratricide as his simile.
  • (8) Tragically, there is the possibility that 'fratricide' may have been involved."
  • (9) Look around the Tory party today, and chaos reigns; Britain feels more socially fratricidal than I have ever known it.
  • (10) For the radical socialist left in Scotland, this is the continuation of a fratricidal nightmare.
  • (11) Rather it is that religious prejudice, once awakened, is destablising, fratricidal, and difficult for anyone to control.
  • (12) He was a good lad.” I remarked what an extraordinary testament it was to the mindless, fratricidal nature of the conflict that he was mourning the death of one of his captors.
  • (13) George Clooney's political drama The Ides of March is about a Democratic primary campaign unfolding in the key state of Ohio, in an atmosphere heavy with fratricidal betrayal behind the scenes.
  • (14) The speed and extent of peptide-induced changes in the appearance of CTLs suggest that the destruction may be due primarily to self-recognition and self-destruction of individual CTLs (suicide) rather than to the destruction of some CTLs by others of the same clone in the same culture (fratricide).
  • (15) After being at each other's throats for years in fratricidal wars, we're now all culturally European."
  • (16) There was talk of fratricide, and comparisons were made with Cain and Abel.

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