(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.
Patricide
Definition:
(n.) The murderer of his father.
(n.) The crime of one who murders his father. Same as Parricide.
Example Sentences:
(1) Macbeth has been viewed as a play about the oedipal crime of patricide.
(2) Patricide patients' fathers were more punitive and shaming than control patients' fathers, and control patients' fathers were more stimulating and depriving than patricide patients' fathers.
(3) Where did she find the strength for this audacious patricide?
(4) A 34-year-old housewife who was arrested for patricide confessed that she had also killed six newborn infants between 1975 to 1983.
(5) A sense of relief was felt following the patricide rather than remorse.
(6) Patricide patients' mothers were more overinvolved and tolerant than control patients' mothers.
(7) Seven schizophrenics who committed patricide and both personality-disordered patients had a cruel and unusual relationship with their father.
(8) There's some moral ambiguity – he'll rough up crims to get what he wants, he's not a very good husband, and his most trusted ally is a patricidal psychopath – but in theory, there's little to differentiate it from, say, Prime Suspect or Cracker.
(9) Alice Morgan – said patricidal psychopath, played with delicious wickedness by Ruth Wilson – is one of TV's most unusual sidekicks.
(10) As one French commentator pointed out : “It’s rare that we witness a patricide first hand.” Jean-Marie’s decision to express himself in Rivarol , where he called for an alliance with Russia to save “the white world” among other suggestions, was seen as a blatant challenge to his daughter and her entourage.
(11) Seventeen female parricides (14 matricides, 3 patricides) were identified: in a remand prison (11), a Special Hospital (5), and a Regional Secure Unit (1).
(12) Two of the patricides had no psychiatric disorder but retaliated against violent fathers.
(13) In this regard the film’s psychologically dark and patricidal energies are inescapable: when pressed about his mother, Leon replies “let me tell you about my mother”, and blasts the inquiring blade runner in the groin; when Roy demands of Tyrell, “I want more life, fucker”, it’s the first and only swear word in the film, all the stronger for it, and for being addressed to a “father” who has unfeelingly engineered him, and not out of love fathered him at all.
(14) With his family newspaper condemning the flabbergasting "patricide" of Angelino Alfano, the PdL secretary widely seen as Berlusconi's heir who emerged as leader of the rebels, the 77-year-old arrived at the senate around 25 minutes into Letta's make-or-break speech "Italy is running a risk that is potentially fatal, without remedy," the prime minister told MPs, warning them of the damage to the country's economy and image that a government collapse and eventual fresh elections would inflict.
(15) The authors studied 10 men charged with patricide, including 2 men charged with both patricide and matricide and compared them with 10 schizophrenic patients who did not commit any crime.
(16) The authors reviewed the records of 10 men charged with patricide, including one charged with double parricide, all of whom had been examined at the Forensic Psychiatry Service of Bellevue Hospital from 1970 to 1983.
(17) Eight patients who committed patricide were diagnosed as suffering from schizophrenic illness and 2 patients received a diagnosis of personality-disorder.