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tyrannicidal

tyrannicidal adjective: of or pertaining to tyrannicide, or the murder of a tyrant.

Adjective

tyrannicidal (comparative more tyrannicidal, superlative most tyrannicidal)

  1. Of or pertaining to tyrannicide, or the murder of a tyrant.
    • The Jeſuits and Janſeniſts of France, although they differed in almoſt every other reſpect, agreed in their hoſtility to temporal deſpotic power: and one of the greateſt charges, brought againſt the former, was their tyrannicidal doctrine.1799, Alexander Geddes, A Sermon, Preached on the Day of General Fast, February 27, 1799

Forms of tyrannicidal

comparativemore tyrannicidal
superlativemost tyrannicidal

Origin of tyrannicidal

From tyrannicide + -al.

Questions about tyrannicidal

What does tyrannicidal mean?
Tyrannicidal means of or pertaining to tyrannicide, or the murder of a tyrant.
What part of speech is tyrannicidal?
Tyrannicidal is an adjective.

Words near tyrannicidal in the dictionary

  1. tyrannic
  2. tyrannical
  3. tyrannical sadism
  4. tyrannically
  5. tyrannicalness
  6. tyrannicidal
  7. tyrannicide
  8. tyrannicides
  9. tyrannick
  10. tyrannid
  11. tyrannids

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