patricide
/pa-truh-sahyd, pey‐/US // ˈpæ trəˌsaɪd, ˈpeɪ‐ //UK // (ˈpætrɪˌsaɪd) //
弑父,弑父罪,弑父行为,弑君
Definitions
n.名词 noun
- 1
- : the act of killing one's own father.
- : a person who commits such an act.
Examples
Tyrion, now on the lam for patricide by crossbow, is destined for an unknown foreign port like a diminutive Edward Snowden.
As a writer, Dyer commits this artistic patricide regularly and more elegantly than most.
This was laughed at before the shadow of Booth's patricide was cast ahead.
"But even there infanticide was more popular than patricide," Farrell pointed out.
As in similar psychological situations, patricide and matricide followed.
There was a time when the ancient Romans did not think that there existed such a crime as patricide; and hence it is.
Did the ancient Romans encourage their children to kill their parents, or to commit patricide?
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