tyrannicide

NOUN
  1. killing a tyrant
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How To Use tyrannicide In A Sentence

  • Why were the tyrannicides honoured in the first place?
  • My ideas as to the exact means of tyrannicide were distinctly vague.
  • Classical tyrannicide was valorized because it could remove the oppressor with the minimum force.
  • Since Mariana is no revolutionary, he does not make it easy for would-be tyrannicides.
  • It stood at the center of impassioned debate throughout Europe three hundred years later because it provided the most notable theoretical justification for the legitimacy of tyrannicide written by a Christian authority.
  • The Judith and Holofernes and the David evoke references to tyrannicide well known to the Medici and to other members of the educated elite in Florence through ancient and contemporary texts.
  • They had been raised on edifying tales of Greek tyrannicides that always ended in the liberation of the city.
  • Attributed to the famous poet Simonides, it extolled the tyrannicides and their liberation of Athens with the words, ‘A marvelous great light shone upon Athens when Aristogeiton and Harmodios slew Hipparchus.’
  • Both Jean Petit and Jean Gerson picked up the Policratirus's emphasis on Judith as an exemplar of tyrannicide and cited her in the debates at Paris and Constance.
  • And here is the Christian who struggles with his participation in an act of tyrannicide.
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