Crossword-Solution: PARRICIDE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Parricide | n. | Properly, one who murders one's own father; in a wider sense, one who murders one's father or mother or any ancestor. |
| Parricide | n. | The act or crime of murdering one's own father or any ancestor. |
We have 8 clues for the answer “PARRICIDE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| A murderer in the family. | 1 answer |
| KILLING of close relative | 1 answer |
| KILLING of relative | 1 answer |
| Oedipus or Orestes | 1 answer |
| Oedipus, by chance. | 1 answer |
| KILLING of father | 2 answers |
| patricide | 3 answers |
| homicide | 16 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 PARRICIDE (5)
Nor would they harbor, so I stood assured, A godless parricide, a reprobate Convicted of incestuous marriage ties.
Avaunt—avaunt!—-” But it were impious to trace any farther the picture of the blasphemer and parricide’s deathbed.
They even whisper that because he has slain Monseigneur, and because Monseigneur was the father of his tenants--serfs--what you will--he will be executed as a parricide.
Then he is a parricide, and a cruel guardian of an aged parent; and this is real tyranny, about which there can be no longer a mistake: as the saying is, the people who would escape the smoke which is the slavery of freemen, has fallen into the fire which is the tyranny of slaves.
For Man's grim Justice goes its way, And will not swerve aside: It slays the weak, it slays the strong, It has a deadly stride: With iron heel it slays the strong, The monstrous parricide! We waited for the stroke of eight: Each tongue was thick with thirst: For the stroke of eight is the stroke of Fate That makes a man accursed, And Fate will use a running noose For the best man and the worst.
Quotes with PARRICIDE (3)
But it so happens that everything on this planet is, ultimately, irrational; there is not, and cannot be, any reason for the causal connexion of things, if only because our use of the word "reason" already implies the idea of causal connexion. But, even if we avoid this fundamental difficulty, Hume said that causal connexion was not merely unprovable, but unthinkable; and, in shallower waters still, one cannot assign a true reason why water should flow down hill, or sugar tas…
The discovery of the horror tale at an early age was fortuitous for me. This sort of tale serves, in many ways, the very same purpose as fairy tales did in our childhood. It operates as a theater of the mind in which internal conflicts are played out. In these tales we can parade the most reprehensible aspects of our being: cannibalism, incest, parricide. It allows us to discuss our anxieties and even to contemplate the experience of death in absolute safety. And again, like …
The nails from a suicide's coffin, and the skull of the parricide, were of course no trouble; for Vesquit never traveled without these household requisites.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1952–1991).