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fratricidal

fratricidal adjective: of or pertaining to fratricide.

Adjective

fratricidal (comparative more fratricidal, superlative most fratricidal)

  1. Of or pertaining to fratricide.
    • Taizong's failure fooled no one. Indeed, one of Taizong's own sons may well have been unhinged by his father's obvious fratricidal and nepoticidal actions. These personal considerations directly affected Taizong's policy decisions, and thus warrant some discussion.2008, Peter Lorge, “The Great Ditch of China and the Song-Liao Border”, in Don J. Wyatt, editor, Battlefronts Real and Imagined: War, Border, and Identity in the Chinese Middle Period, New York...
    • At the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, which commemorates the president who urged a fratricidal nation to go forward “with malice toward none, with charity toward all,” the Olipa family debated what’s happened to leadership in America.2023 March 31, Christa Case Bryant, Henry Gass, Story Hinckley, Sophie Hills, “Sobering moment: Americans reflect on Trump indictment”, in The Christian Science Monitor

Forms of fratricidal

comparativemore fratricidal
superlativemost fratricidal

Origin of fratricidal

From fratricide + -al.

Words formed from fratricidal

Questions about fratricidal

What does fratricidal mean?
Fratricidal means of or pertaining to fratricide.
What part of speech is fratricidal?
Fratricidal is an adjective.

Words near fratricidal in the dictionary

  1. fratority
  2. fratress
  3. fratresses
  4. fratriarchal
  5. fratriarchy
  6. fratricidal
  7. fratricidally
  8. fratricide
  9. fratricides
  10. fratries
  11. fratry

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