What's the difference between regicidal and regicide?

Regicidal


Definition:

  • (a.) Pertaining to regicide, or to one committing it; having the nature of, or resembling, regicide.

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.

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.

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