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assassinous

assassinous adjective: murderous; assassin-like.

Adjective

assassinous (comparative more assassinous, superlative most assassinous)

  1. (obsolete) Murderous; assassin-like.
    • And let him ask the jesuits about him, whether it be not their known doctrine and also practice, not by fair and due process of justice to punish kings and magistrates, which we disavow not, but to murder them in the basest and most assassinous manner, if their church interest so require.1649, John Milton, “Observations on the Articles of Peace between the Earl of Ormond and the Irish”, in The Prose Works of John Milton, Volume I, published 1838, page 265

Forms of assassinous

comparativemore assassinous
superlativemost assassinous

Origin of assassinous

From assassin + -ous.

Questions about assassinous

What does assassinous mean?
Assassinous means murderous; assassin-like.
What part of speech is assassinous?
Assassinous is an adjective.

Words near assassinous in the dictionary

  1. assassinee
  2. assassinees
  3. assassining
  4. assassinism
  5. assassinlike
  6. assassinous
  7. assassins
  8. Assassins of Alamut
  9. assassinship
  10. Assateague
  11. Assateague horse

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