PARRICIDE


Meaning of PARRICIDE in English

noun

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Godoy struck first hoping, in the Escorial Trial, that Ferdinand might be found guilty of political parricide .

How do we know that there was an original crime of parricide ?

In his Totem and Taboo Freud made such an act of primal parricide and rape the origin of all subsequent human culture.

In Wagner's opera Parsifal the trauma of parricide is there in the background, but is unconscious.

The memory of the parricide was both important enough, and repeated often enough, to enter the archaic heritage.

Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary.      Дополнительный английский словарь Longman DOCE5.