Recent Examples on the WebThe raw power grab that excites Lady Macbeth and incites her husband to regicide feels especially pertinent now, when the dangers of autocracy loom over political discussions.—Peter Marks, Washington Post, 28 Mar. 2024 Those Tories by the way have a particular penchant for political regicide before voters get the chance.—Stephen Collinson, CNN, 19 Jan. 2023 The convulsions of 17th-century England are familiar: a civil war, a regicide and, eventually, a restoration of the monarchy.—Jeffrey Collins, WSJ, 14 Oct. 2022 Stephen Root, in a single scene as Porter, lifts the grim, forensic business of regicide and its aftermath into the realm of knockabout farce.—New York Times, 22 Dec. 2021 Sure, there was a Hamlet-esque regicide plotline among some lions.—Hannah Giorgis, The Atlantic, 11 July 2019 But regulatory moves can often take months or years to come into full effect, so a short-term prediction need not account for every possibility.
King Coal’s regicide?—Megan Geuss, Ars Technica, 11 July 2018
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Word History
Etymology
Latin reg-, rex king + English -cide — more at royal
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