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tzaricide

tzaricide is the alternative spelling of tsaricide.

Meaning of tsaricide

Noun

tsaricide (countable and uncountable, plural tsaricides)

  1. The killing of a tsar.
    • It had been those wishing to unleash a revolution “sooner,” so said the count, who had come to advocate tsaricide.2009, Claudia Verhoeven, “From the Files of the Karakozov Case: The Virtual Birth of Terrorism”, in The Odd Man Karakozov: Imperial Russia, Modernity, and the Birth of Terrorism, Ithaca, N.Y....
  2. (countable) One who kills a tsar.
    • It would be manifestly unjust, I think, to extradite a Tsaricide upon the ground that he is not a political offender, and then allow his own government to try him by court-martial and hang him solely upon the ground that he is a political offender.1893 May, George Kennan, “The Russian Extradition Treaty”, in The Forum, volume XV, New York, N.Y.: Forum Publishing Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 294

Forms of tzaricide

pluraltzaricides

Questions about tzaricide

What is tzaricide the alternative spelling of?
Tzaricide is the alternative spelling of tsaricide.

Words near tzaricide in the dictionary

  1. tzarevitch
  2. tzarevitches
  3. tzarevna
  4. tzarevnas
  5. tzarian
  6. tzaricide
  7. tzaricides
  8. tzarina
  9. tzarinas
  10. tzarism
  11. tzarist

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