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How to use parricide in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word parricide? Here are some examples.

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Now, when we see that in Rome the parricide was whipped with the red twigs of the cornel tree, an arbor infelix, the conclusion seems evident.
Freud emphasises parricide, both in regard to the Oedipal urge and to the primal horde, where sons kill the father.
Both were executed, along with 52 others suspected of involvement in the machinations of Batz, dressed in red, the colour of parricide.
I tell you, remember Pygmalion, whose gluttonous thirst of gold made him a traitor, robber, and even what is worse, a parricide.
But her mood shifts when the suspicious death of newspaper tycoon Luther Read, a patriarch unbeloved by his offspring, sets Lucy on the trail of a possible parricide.
She is inexorably engulfed by the cloud of shame that surrounds parricide.
Roscius had much to be thankful for, since he was accused of parricide.
According to Freud, the ritual slaughter of an animal was instituted to reenact the primeval act of parricide.
Freud speculated that the rebellion of sons against dominating fathers for control over women had culminated in actual parricide.
The parricide murderess, who looked insane, was detained and taken to court.
A resurrection today would be both a parricide and a suicide.
That Antonia whom you violated, was your Sister! That Elvira whom you murdered, gave you birth! Tremble, abandoned Hypocrite! Inhuman Parricide! Incestuous Ravisher!
Examples from Classical Literature
With all your abominations you are yet a saint in comparison with a parricide.
All this is done and suffered to mark the enormity of the crime of a parricide.
After a parricide, a fratricide was nothing to him, and he executed it with a machiavellism full of atrocious precautions.
There stands a gibbet by the road, on which a parricide was hanged in chains.
Whereupon a senator got up and denounced him as an enemy and a parricide.
The reason assigned for this parricide was strange as the deed.
Sambo at the sideboard burst out laughing, and poor fat Joe felt inclined to become a parricide almost.
Should the assassin come, it will not be with the blow of a parricide.
There was parricide as well as infanticide in the horrible houses.
Absolution to any parricide, matricide, or fratricide, for three ducats.
Thus one year after he had committed this parricide, he was strangled, together with Vitellozzo, whom he had made his leader in valour and wickedness.
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