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tyrannicide
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tyrannicide \Ty*ran"ni*ci`de\, n. [L. tyrannicidium the killing of a tyrant, tyrannicida the killer of a tyrant; tyrannus a tyrant + caedere to kill: cf. F. tyrannicide.]
The act of killing a tyrant.
--Hume.One who kills a tyrant.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The killing of a tyrant. 2 Someone who kills a tyrant.
WordNet
n. killing a tyrant
Wikipedia
Tyrannicide is the killing or assassination of a tyrant or unjust ruler, usually for the common good, and usually by one of the tyrant's subjects.
The term also denotes those who kill a tyrant (e.g., Harmodius and Aristogeiton, who are called 'the tyrannicides').
Usage examples of "tyrannicide".
Preaching passive obedience to the king, he finds no check on him, either by tyrannicide or by constitutional magistrates, save only in the judgment of God.
Leonrod had asked an Army chaplain friend of his, Father Hermann Wehrle, whether the Catholic Church condoned tyrannicide and had been given a negative answer.
The bourgeoisie, which for decades had exalted and eulogized tyrannicide, now was filled with terrible rage.
The Greeks had a very soft spot for a tyrannicide, and so they regarded Brutus.
Here was the tyrannicide behaving like any other Roman with intellectual pretensions, skipping from theaters to libraries to lectures.
So fierce, if brief, had been the love between him and the future tyrannicide Harmodius that Athenian history was changed.
The play was replete with tyrannicide and the reasons behind ita tragedy of epic proportions.
It would, therefore, be irrelevant and out of place to examine here, whether the doctrine of Tyrannicide deserves that title.
Violent opposition in the historical period under consideration was conducted not by terrorism but by tyrannicide, both methods being justified by their proponents by doctrines of the right to resistance.
Acts of radical terrorism such as tyrannicide were in principle frowned upon by those who might one day suffer themselves.
Thus they added to traditional tyrannicide the concept of calculated deicide.
Much to his embarrassment, he discovered that statues of himself and Cassius were already under construction, and would go up on imposing plinths in the agora right next to the statues of the great Greek tyrannicides, Aristogeiton and Harmodius.
Much to his embarrassment, he discovered that statues of himself and Cassius were already under construction, and would go up on imposing plinths in the agora right next to the statues of the great Greek tyrannicides, Aristogeiton and Harmodius.
A certain Velu, a born vagabond, formerly in the alms-house and brought up there, then a shoemaker or a cobbler, afterwards teaching school in the faubourg de Vienne, and at last a haranguer and proposer of tyrannicide motions, short, stout and as rubicund as his cap, is made President of the Popular club at Blois, then delegate for domiciliary visits, and, throughout the reign of Terror, he is a principal personage in the town, district and department.