Kinslayer

noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

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Noun
  1. 1
    One who slays his or her own kin; a parricide. rare

    "Associated by the poet with Cain, primordial kinslayer and therefore symbol of elemental social disunity, he stalks abroad, ravaging only by night..."

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"Associated by the poet with Cain, primordial kinslayer and therefore symbol of elemental social disunity, he stalks abroad, ravaging only by night..."

Etymology

From kin + slayer.

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