(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.
Regicide
Definition:
(n.) One who kills or who murders a king; specifically (Eng.Hist.), one of the judges who condemned Charles I. to death.
(n.) The killing or the murder of a king.
Example Sentences:
(1) The dismal question is whether the chaos of a second regicide might bring yet worse voter revenge than soldiering on with a leader who rates lower than any other since polls began.
(2) Released from fighting the trench warfare that engulfed the Tories after the regicide of Thatcher, he was rewarded by the job of his lifetime.
(3) They worry that regicide will translate into collective suicide and are not quite convinced Alan Johnson is the answer to their prayers.
(4) The guilt over her regicide, the fear that they would never find a leader to match her, the urge to do her will by distancing Britain from the hated European enterprise – one way or another, the Thatcher ghost refused to rest.