Crossword-Solution: TYRANNICIDE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Tyrannicide | n. | The act of killing a tyrant. |
| Tyrannicide | n. | One who kills a tyrant. |
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| Clue | Answers |
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| Justified assassination of an oppressive leader | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
To go or move with one side foremost; to move sidewise;
as, to sidle through a crowd or narrow opening.
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Sentences with TYRANNICIDE (5)
The tyrannicide expected by his crime to become tyrant and afterwards to have a happy life; but when he had held the tyranny three or four days, he was in his turn conspired against and slain.
The later Guelphs and Ghibellines 55 The conspirators 56 Murders in church 57 Influence of ancient tyrannicide 57 Catiline as an ideal 59 Florentine view of tyrannicide 59 The people and tyrannicide 60 CHAPTER VII.
Among the Florentines, whenever they got rid of, or tried to get rid of, the Medici, tyrannicide was a practice universally accepted and approved.
After Lorenzino Medici had murdered the Duke Alessandro (1537), and then escaped, an apology for the deed appeared,[122] which is probably his own work, and certainly composed in his interest, and in which he praises tyrannicide as an act of the highest merit; on the supposition that Alessandro was a legitimate Medici, and, therefore, related to him, if only distantly, he boldly compares himself with Timoleon, who slew his brother for his country’s sake.
The bourgeoisie, which for decades had exalted and eulogized tyrannicide, now was filled with terrible rage.