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kinslayers

kinslayers is the plural of kinslayer.

Meaning of kinslayer

Noun

kinslayer (plural kinslayers)

  1. (rare) One who slays his or her own kin; a parricide.
    • Associated by the poet with Cain, primordial kinslayer and therefore symbol of elemental social disunity, he stalks abroad, ravaging only by night...1978, Michael James Swanton, editor, Beowulf

Questions about kinslayers

What is kinslayers the plural of?
Kinslayers is the plural of kinslayer.

Words near kinslayers in the dictionary

  1. kinsider
  2. Kinsinger
  3. Kinsingers
  4. Kinsky
  5. kinslayer
  6. kinslayers
  7. Kinslee
  8. Kinsleigh
  9. Kinsler
  10. Kinslers
  11. Kinsley

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