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Adjective
parricidal (comparative more parricidal, superlative most parricidal)
- Related to, inclined to, or guilty of, the murder of one’s immediate family.
- ✤ When my parents grounded me, I had a burst of parricidal thoughts, but I eventually got over it.
Etymology
From Latin parricīdālis.1 By surface analysis, parricide + -al.
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Link to original Footnotes
John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “parricidal, a.”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN. ↩
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