Czaricide

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Alternative spelling of tsaricide. alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable

    "A few blocks east is the Mikhailovsky Palace, site of another act of czaricide, this in 1801, when Paul I, a son of Catherine the Great, was murdered in his bedroom."

Example

More examples

"A few blocks east is the Mikhailovsky Palace, site of another act of czaricide, this in 1801, when Paul I, a son of Catherine the Great, was murdered in his bedroom."

Etymology

From czar + -icide.

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