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Examples of regicide
regicide
Royalists commemorate the regicide annually on the anniversary of the execution.
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The King's death is still a mystery and may have been either regicide or suicide.
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In the rest of the state, coal is king and the EPA is seen as committing regicide.
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She hopes to become like a man to stop any sense of remorse for the regicide.
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Finally, after being accused of treason and regicide he was banished to the Crimea.
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Most people still balked at regicide, so these legal fictions had to be resorted to.
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After the regicide, the Royalists gained control of the colonial assembly.
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Tragic endings, on-stage death and regicide became the norm rather than the exception.
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The king, bent on forgiving Damiens, could not avoid a trial for regicide.
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- Someone who commits regicide; the killer of a king
- The act of killing a king
- (Regicides) Those of the Rump Parliament who voted for the execution of Charles II.
- The killing of a king. (Greek tragic figure Oedipus Rex committed both regicide and patricide.)
- Quite simply "those who kill kings". Examples include England in 1649 and France in 1793.
