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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Liberticide

Liberticide \Lib"er*ti*cide\ (l[i^]b"[~e]r*t[i^]*s[imac]d), n. [L. libertas liberty + caedere to kill: cf. (for sense 2) F. liberticide.]

  1. The destruction of civil liberty.

  2. A destroyer of civil liberty.
    --B. F. Wade.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
liberticide

1793, from liberty + -cide.

Wiktionary
liberticide

a. Causing the destruction of liberty; oppressive, liberticidal n. 1 The destruction of liberty. 2 One who causes the destruction of liberty.

Usage examples of "liberticide".

I denounce the liberticide Brissot, the Girondist faction, the villainous committee of twenty-one in the National Assembly.

The conservative body you propose might be so constituted, as, while it would be an admirable sedative in a variety of smaller cases, might also be a valuable sentinel and check on the liberticide views of an ambitious individual.