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n. The murdering of one's father, mother, or other near relative.

n. One who commits such a murder.

n. Someone who kills a relative, especially a parent.

n. The killing of a relative, especially a parent.

n. The killing of a ruler, or other authority figure; treason.

n. Properly, one who murders one's own father; in a wider sense, one who murders one's father or mother or any ancestor.

n. The act or crime of murdering one's own father or any ancestor.

n. One who murders his father or mother.

n. One who murders any ancestor or any one to whom he owes reverence; also, in old use, one who kills his child.

n. The murder of a parent or of one to whom reverence is due.

n. Figuratively, one who commits treason against his country.

n. Figuratively, the crime of treason against one's country.

n. someone who kills his or her parent

n. the murder of your own father or mother

"This recovery of filiation in parricide has its parallel in the more general return of history and ethics that de Man recognizes in these essays (and claims is their "most interesting occurrence of all") (498)."

patricide    infanticide    perjurer    regicide    sacrilege