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单词 king-killing
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king-killingn.

Brit. /ˈkɪŋkɪlɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈkɪŋˌkɪlɪŋ/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: king n., killing n.
Etymology: < king n. + killing n. Compare earlier regicide n.2 and the French form cited at that entry. Compare also earlier king-killer n.
The action or an act of killing of a king or kings; regicide.
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the world > life > death > killing > killing of type of person > [noun] > of king
regicide1579
king-killing1606
regicidation1661
tsaricide1883
1606 True Relation Proc. at Arraignm. Late Traitors sig. O4 That King-killing, and Queene-killing was not indeed a doctrine of theirs.
1662 Rump Songs (1874) II. 98 Murther and Lyes, King-Killing, Hypocrisy, Cheats.
1705 J. Browne Moon-calf 25 The Crolians by their..Doctrines of King-killing and Resisting the..Powers, overthrew both King and People.
1797 New Ann. Reg. 1796 45/1 As to the doctrine of king-killing, he knew the majority of the people held it in universal detestation.
1838 Brit. Mag. & Monthly Reg. Aug. 172 The chief treatises with which the public has been hitherto favoured are, the republican Milton's choice Essays on King-killing and Priest-cashiering.
1878 Army & Navy Jrnl. (U.S.) 23 Nov. 254/2 (heading) The mania for king-killing.
1911 Amer. Monthly Mag. Sept. 127/2 The Second Church of Boston was the direct result of the King killing in England in 1649.
1962 M. Renault Bull from Sea (Author's Note) 271 Theseus..is supposed to have..imposed the Olympian cult at Eleusis after a ritual king-killing.
2014 Gloucester Citizen (Nexis) 10 July 10 Ancient beliefs of tribal king killing to perpetuate the spiral of nature.

Compounds

General attributive, chiefly with the sense ‘supporting the killing of a king or kings’.
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1606 M. Sutcliffe Briefe Exam. Menacing & Disleal Petition xix. 110 (note) The kingkilling positions maintained by the popish faction.
1643 W. Prynne Soveraigne Power Parl. i. 3 This King-deposing, King-killing Popish Doctrine.
1712 W. Tisdal Let. in J. Stevenson Two Cent. Life in Down (1920) xv. 399 Milton still stuck to his..King-Killing Doctrine.
1830 E. E. Crowe Hist. France I. x. 380 He had been a monk, strongly imbued with the king-killing principles that the jesuits had broached.
1901 Outlook 10 Aug. 863/1 In the present status of modern Anarchy, England and the United States are the only asylums in the entire civilized world for men who believe the king-killing philosophy.
2002 Edmonton (Alberta) Jrnl. (Nexis) 8 Mar. a18 The bit-of-a-stretch argument this was a king-killing issue.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

king-killingadj.

Brit. /ˈkɪŋkɪlɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈkɪŋˌkɪlɪŋ/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: king n., killing adj.
Etymology: < king n. + killing adj. Compare later regicidal adj. Compare also earlier king-killer n.
That kills a king or kings; regicidal.
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the world > life > death > killing > killing of type of person > [adjective] > of king
king-killing1608
regicide1644
regicidal1660
1608 J. Sylvester in tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. (new ed.) ii. ii. 113 King-killing Treacheries Succeed a-rowe, with Wrack of Israel.
a1732 F. Atterbury Serm. Several Occas. (1734) II. 21 They outstripped..even the bloodiest of their King-killing Neighbours.
1835 C. Whitehead Lives & Exploits Eng. Highwaymen 63 I neither fear you nor any king-killing villain alive.
1878 Army & Navy Jrnl. (U.S.) 23 Nov. 254/3 The four king-killing culprits of the present day..have been members of some socialist society.
1921 J. E. C. Flitch tr. M. de Unamuno Tragic Sense of Life in Men & Peoples 329 He would retire alone.., fleeing from the king-making and king-killing crowds.
1986 J. Gordon Finnegans Wake: Plot Summary xviii. 223 They are the father-attacking duo from Book I, the king-killing Macbeth of Book II.
2014 Star Tribune (Minneapolis) (Nexis) 17 Apr. e1 The character of Ubu, a king-killing mashup of Hamlet, King Lear and Macbeth who ascends to power and then begins to abuse it.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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