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deicidal en · ADJ

Pronunciation

  • [deɪ(j)ɪˈsaɪdəɫ] (UK)

Etymology

From deicide + -al.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Of or pertaining to deicide.
    • "How do you like that, you deicidal maniac? Huh? HUH? Now who's so big and tough?" "Dude, don't taunt the god-killing abomination." 2006, Rich Burlew, The Order of the Stick: No Cure for the Paladin Blues, page 275:
    • Early Christian doctrine professed that the Jews were a deicidal people, condemned by God to dispersion and suffering. 2000, Malka Hillel Shulewitz, The forgotten millions: the modern Jewish exodus from Arab lands, page 47:
    • 'Jerusalem overawes me' declared François-René, Vicomte de Chateaubriand, even though this 'deicidal city' was 'a heap of rubbish' with the 'confused monuments of a cemetery in the middle of a desert'. 2011, Simon Sebag Montefiore, Jerusalem: The Biography – A History of the Middle East, page 382:

Translations (2)

it deicida (of or pertaining to deicide) · fr déicide (of or pertaining to deicide)