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liberticides

liberticides is the plural of liberticide.

Meaning of liberticide

Noun

liberticide (countable and uncountable, plural liberticides)

  1. The destruction of liberty.
    • All that has been done by the state since the revolt of May is liberticide of the most violent character.1819, “Ouida” (pseudonym), “An Impeachment of Modern Italy”, in The American Monthly Review of Reviews, Volume 18, Number 5 (1819 November), page 557
  2. One who causes the destruction of liberty.
    • Blind, old, and lonely, when his country's pride, / The priest, the slave, and the liberticide / Trampled and mocked with many a loathed rite / Of lust and blood; he went, unterrified, /1821, Percy B[ysshe] Shelley, Adonais: An Elegy on the Death of John Keats, […], Pisa, Italy: […] Didot; reprinted London: Noel Douglas […], 1927, →OCLC

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Questions about liberticides

What is liberticides the plural of?
Liberticides is the plural of liberticide.

Words near liberticides in the dictionary

  1. libertarians
  2. Libertas
  3. Liberti
  4. liberticidal
  5. liberticide
  6. liberticides
  7. libertie
  8. liberties
  9. libertinage
  10. libertinages
  11. libertine

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