patricide

NOUN
  1. the murder of your father
  2. a person who murders their father
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How To Use patricide In A Sentence

  • He is at pains to point out that, rather than committing the usual matricide / patricide so common in the intellectual sphere, his paper augments my interpretation, superimposing one interpretation over the other.
  • They don't manage to fully convey the horrors of the patricide and tyranny that they have to contend with.
  • The patricide plot in The Brothers Karamazov carries complicated philosophical and theological connotations.
  • She has suspected Maerose of planning patricide for some time now.
  • My Dad does this and it makes me what to commit patricide.
  • 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.
  • The Chorus reminds Oedipus that he deserved punishment because it was he who first killed his own father Laius on the road to Thebes, committing the same crime of patricide that prohibits him from being buried on Theban soil.
  • The book opens, for example, with the public execution of Beatrice Cenci in Rome, for patricide, on Sept.11, 1599.
  • In Ailing Zhang's novels, as his father's brutal childhood, and irresponsible men make Ailing Zhang's role in society had a question, and even had a patricide complex.
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