单词 | patricidal |
释义 | patricidaladj. Involving or relating to betrayal of one's country. Later also: that kills his or her father; involving or of the nature of patricide. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > wrongdoing > treachery or treason > [adjective] > to fatherland patricidal1804 society > morality > duty or obligation > recognition of duty > undutifulness > treachery > [adjective] > treasonable unkindc1300 treasonfula1400 treasonable1487 treasonous1593 patricidal1804 1804 D. Humphreys Misc. Wks. 171 Ingrates! to play a patricidal part, And strive to stab their country to the heart! 1821 T. Jefferson Autobiogr. in Writings (1984) 66 The States General indignant at this patricidal conduct applied to France for aid. 1827 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 22 613 They acted in the most wild, unconstitutional, and patricidal manner. 1887 A. C. Swinburne Locrine V. i. 121 With my son I plead not, seeing..his deeds of truth undone By patricidal treason. 1944 College Eng. 6 83/2 Human society re-enacts the patricidal tragedy of Oedipus and Laius. 1992 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 12 July 10/2 He wants..to protect his father from..his own patricidal impulses, nearly equal to his love. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1804 |
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