Liberticide
adj, noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 The destruction of liberty. countable, uncountable
"All that has been done by the state since the revolt of May is liberticide of the most violent character."
- 2 One who causes the destruction of liberty. countable, uncountable
"Blind, old, and lonely, when his country's pride, / The priest, the slave, and the liberticide / Trampled and mocked with many a loathed rite / Of lust and blood; he went, unterrified, /"
- 1 Causing the destruction of liberty; oppressive, liberticidal not-comparable
"[…] by aſſembling at her houſe, in ſecret council, the principal chiefs of that conſpiracy, and by keeping up a correſpondence tending to facilitate their liberticide deſigns."
Example
More examples"[…] by aſſembling at her houſe, in ſecret council, the principal chiefs of that conſpiracy, and by keeping up a correſpondence tending to facilitate their liberticide deſigns."
Etymology
From French liberticide, coined around the time of the French Revolution. Equivalent to liberty + -cide.
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