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▪ I. liberticide, n.1 and a.|lɪˈbɜːtɪsaɪd|
[a. F. liberticide (recorded only as adj.; used by Babœuf, a 1797), f. liberté liberty + -cide, -cide 1.]
A. n. A ‘killer’ or destroyer of liberty.
1795Southey Maid of Orleans ii. 328 Cæsar..the great liberticide. 1837Carlyle Fr. Rev. III. ii. ii, What if he should prove too prosperous, and become Liberticide, Murderer of Freedom! 1863Scotsman 28 Mar. (Kinglake's Crimea), He abhors Louis Napoleon..because he sees in him a liberticide. 1895Ouida in Contemp. Rev. Aug. 241 He was, in his prime, a regicide; he is, in his old age, a liberticide.
B. adj. Destructive of liberty.
1793A. Young Example France (ed. 3) 60 note, Spare not the liberticide members, who vote in favour of Louis. 1817Bentham Parl. Ref. Catech. (1818) 122 As to the tongue, under one of the late liberticide Acts, two London Aldermen..have sufficed to put an end to all public use of that instrument. 1819Shelley in Dowden Shelley (1886) II. vii. 294 Two liberticide wars undertaken by the privileged classes of the country. 1842Blackw. Mag. LII. 431 The most violent, haughty, and liberticide of all despotisms.
▪ II. liberticide, n.2 rare.|lɪˈbɜːtɪsaɪd|
[f. as prec.: see -cide 2.]
The ‘killing’ of liberty.
1819Shelley Eng. in 1819, 8 An army which liberticide and prey Make as a two-edged sword to all who wield. 1898Ouida in Review Rev. Sept. 251 All that has been done by the State since the revolt of May is liberticide of the most violent character. |