| It was horrific and gruesome and I wondered how any of these women could get through each day without committing patricide. |
| Being proud and genteel New Englanders, the salon-goers covered up their patricide with flattery, duly noting Edwards's considerable intellect and pious reputation. |
| The first of the immeasurable crimes is patricide, killing one's father. |
| Rather than openly contemplating patricide, shouldn't you be identifying with your father so as to accommodate your Oedipal impulses? |
| Soon after the offering is made, Oedipus dies peacefully, his sins of incest and patricide forgiven by these benevolent goddesses. |
| I think his obsession with patricide should occupy him at present. |
