Crossword-Solution: DEICIDE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Deicide | n. | The act of killing a being of a divine nature; particularly, the putting to death of Jesus Christ. |
| Deicide | n. | One concerned in putting Christ to death. |
We have 8 clues for the answer “DEICIDE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Destroyer of a god. | 1 answer |
| Destruction of a god | 1 answer |
| KILLER of a God | 1 answer |
| Killer or destroyer of a god. | 1 answer |
| Murder of a god | 1 answer |
| Set's crime against Osiris | 1 answer |
| What Set committed when he slew Osiris | 1 answer |
| Killing | 51 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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greedy person
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Sentences with DEICIDE (5)
FREEDOM'S WARDENS Look! British fury that, barraging, lights Up Irish skies, like pathways down to hell, Doubles its fire to reach our land as well, Where Freedom's Wardens cry from justice' heights: "'Tis Deicide to murder Human Rights.
One of the writers of the time said that in wounding and killing a prince a man was guilty of homicide, parricide, Christicide, and even of deicide, all in one; that is, that in the person of a king slain by the hand of the murderer the criminal strikes not only at a man, but at his own father, and at Christ his Savior, and God.
When the tenor's voice ended the last romance and his lamentations were lost in the vaulted ceiling, apostrophizing the deicide city, "Jerusalem, Jerusalem!" the crowd scattered, desiring to return as soon as possible to the streets, which had the aspect of a theatre, with the electric lights, their rows of chairs on the sidewalks, and their boxes in the plazas.
Again, if our Divine Lord had not selected Judea for the scene of His public mission, the Jews would never have been guilty of the frightful crime of Deicide, nor would they have incurred the terrible chastisement with which that crime was punished.
But where her imagination most revelled was in seeing his entrance into Jerusalem followed by a multitude carried away by enthusiasm, amid hosannas and shouts of welcome; then his beautiful face, which almost disappeared amid the foliage of the palm-branches, assumed an expression of divinity, his eyes so gentle flashed with the effulgence of omnipotence, and he spread out his hands toward the city, granting it pardon in advance for its barbarous deicide.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT, WSJ.
Used 7 times in crossword archives (1949–2017).