Reginicide
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Alternative form of reginacide. alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable
"One Sunday print, more daring than the rest, placarded the blank walls in the metropolis with pea-green hand-bills, promising an extra sheet, to contain the biography of the supposed assassin of the Queen; to which a rival responded by an advertisement in Gothic characters a foot high, of “Confession of the Assassin.” / If I did not commit reginicide, I was uncommonly near committing felo-de-se!"
Example
More examples"One Sunday print, more daring than the rest, placarded the blank walls in the metropolis with pea-green hand-bills, promising an extra sheet, to contain the biography of the supposed assassin of the Queen; to which a rival responded by an advertisement in Gothic characters a foot high, of “Confession of the Assassin.” / If I did not commit reginicide, I was uncommonly near committing felo-de-se!"
Etymology
From Latin rēgīna (“queen”) + -icide.
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